In what sense did deno compete with cloudflare? It is a niche runtime and cloudflare is a cloud platform

Workers against Deno Deploy? And even if you don't count Deno as a whole in the same market as Cloudflare it's still shady as hell. They had plans to buy out a company with the explicit intent to shut down their main product.

You would expect them to integrate Deno with Workers, make a new official managed service that would probably become profitable in no time with Cloudflare's cost optimized infra, or at least commit to basic security fixes until the community finds new maintainers.

What they pulled off instead is the most toxic form of acqui hire ever invented.

	▲	kentonv 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> They had plans to buy out a company with the explicit intent to shut down their main product. I understand why it looks that way, and we knew it would be hard to combat this perception. But it's simply not true. The actual story is simply this: The Deno team made a strategic decision to refocus on celld, and we (Cloudflare) are excited to support this work, for the reasons I explained in the blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-cloudflare/ See Ryan's own comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023277