Deno team joins Cloudflare, RedMonk warns of an IE6-style JavaScript runtime monoculture
rseroter · x · 2026-10-29
RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff warns the JS runtime ecosystem is consolidating dangerously. Deno's whole team is joining Cloudflare, and Ryan Dahl says Deno runtime development will stop after one year — leaving Node.js and Anthropic-owned Bun as the only major general-purpose runtimes, alongside Cloudflare's workerd. Drawing a parallel to IE6-era browser stagnation and the later Blink/Chromium consolidation, she argues 25 years of lessons show innovation requires diverse builders competing on diverse implementations.
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