How do you feel about the Deno team's decision to join Cloudflare and pivot focus from a standalone runtime toward the celld platform?
Deno Team Joins Cloudflare: A New Era for Distributed Apps?
The Deno team has announced a major strategic shift, joining Cloudflare to focus on building a shared platform rather than continuing the development of a separate runtime and hosting service. This transition moves the team's focus toward 'celld,' a new framework built on Cloudflare's existing programming models, specifically Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects. The goal is to simplify the creation of distributed applications by making scaling and infrastructure management a built-in feature of the programming model rather than a manual task for developers. This shift is particularly aimed at addressing the complexities of running AI agent harnesses at scale, which require persistent state and serverless execution. While this move promises a more seamless experience for developers building on Cloudflare's network, it marks a significant change for those who have historically relied on the independent Deno ecosystem. The move represents an ambition to unify compute, storage, and communication without the need for manually assembled infrastructure.
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- Excited about the simplified, integrated developer experience
- Concerned about the loss of the independent Deno ecosystem
- Optimistic about the new capabilities for scaling AI agents
- Unsure until celld proves it can replace Deno's core utility