> 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