Cloudflare announced it has acquired Deno, the startup responsible for the Deno runtime environment. The acquisition aims to enhance Cloudflare's Workers programming model, which enables customers to develop and deploy software directly on Cloudflare's global network. Kenton Varda, principal engineer for Cloudflare Workers, highlighted that Deno's open source project celld, an implementation of Workers, impressed the Cloudflare team. Varda emphasized that Cloudflare values openness and providing users with an escape hatch, countering assumptions that the company designs Workers to create vendor lock-in. Ryan Dahl, co-founder of Deno and creator of Node.js, stated that his team is joining Cloudflare to help make the Workers programming model a widely adopted method for server-side development. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Prior to the acquisition, Deno had raised $26 million in funding, including a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital.