Fireship: Cloudflare acquires Deno as Node.js creator admits rewrite was a mistake

Fireship · youtube · 2026-10-16

In a new Fireship video, the runtime wars are declared over with Node as the winner. The headline event: Cloudflare has acquired Deno, and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl finally admits that reimplementing Node was a mistake.

The video also mentions JetBrains bundling a free coding model called Junie Lite with every account, framing the deal as the endgame of a decade of JavaScript runtime rivalry.

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