Vercel should fork and maintain Deno

7•gfalcao•1h ago

Given the news of Deno being acquired by Cloudflare and its already stated eventual sunset, someone has to take over deno. Vercel certainly has the resources, I am looking for a job and would love to work on Vercel's deno maintenance (which I suggest should be renamed to "veno", or "vino")

Thoughts on the future of deno post Cloudflare?

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colesantiago•1h ago

Why not the Linux Foundation?

Vercel will place in platform specific features or that work only on Vercel.

It makes no sense for Vercel.

benoau•45m ago

It took nearly $30 million in VC to fund Deno's existence and it got dropped like a rock by Cloudflare so there's probably nothing financially-attractive about the software and no hope of self-sustainability.

Vercel taking it over would be a bandaid solution, back to square one as soon as they want to cut expenses or a PE firm makes an offer their investors can't refuse. It probably wouldn't survive this decade there.

The Apache Foundation is good for projects like this.

Vercel should fork and maintain Deno

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Vercel should fork and maintain Deno

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