The Real Reason

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This video breaks down the acquisition of Deno by Cloudflare, explaining how the project shifted from being a Node.js alternative to becoming a foundation for distributed computing. It highlights the development of the open source project Seld, which allows for self-hosted durable objects, and explores why this alignment with Cloudflare's architecture makes both technical and strategic sense for the future of the web.

Temas tratados

• Deno acquisition by Cloudflare
• Ryan Dahl's Node.js regrets

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This has to be the wildest acquisition of all time for for pretty much anything because on August 5th at 7:00 a.m. Well, okay, 8:00 a.m. Ryan Dahl, creator of Node, creator of Deno, says he just created his next new thing, Seld which is short for "Seld these nuts." Which is a self-hosted distributed durable objects and workers implementation. Now, what makes Seld wild is that within 2 months, just 2 months, October 9th, approximately at 8:00 a.m. once again, Ryan Dahl tweets, "Hey, guess what everybody? Deno, we're all joining Cloudflare." And the reason why they're joining Cloudflare? Seld. But the story behind this is actually so incredible. You got to hear it. And so, of course, that is what we're going to go over today. We're going to go over the acquisition of Deno by Cloudflare and what this means and of course, what the hell are durable objects? I I I think every time you hear thi…