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Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, who had worked on Node.js, released Deno 1.0 in May 2020 as a fresh runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that fixed what they saw…

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GitHub stars: denoland/deno050k100k150kMay 2018Mar 2021Dec 2023Oct 2026
GitHub stars: denoland/deno, last 12 months050k100k150kOct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026Oct 2026
GitHub stars: denoland/deno, last 90 days050k100k150k18 Jul17 Aug15 Sep15 Oct

108,690 GitHub stars

+7 days
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+30 days
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License
MIT
Latest release
v2.9.7 Sep 17, 2026
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Deno: The Team Behind Node.js Started Over, Built a Company Around a Secure JavaScript Runtime, and Six Years Later Took It to Cloudflare

Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, who had worked on Node.js, released Deno 1.0 in May 2020 as a fresh runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that fixed what they saw as Node's design mistakes. In March 2021 they announced the Deno company with $4.9 million in seed capital, in June 2022 raised $21 million led by Sequoia for Deno Deploy, shipped a Node-compatible Deno 2.0 in October 2024, challenged Oracle's JavaScript trademark, and in October 2026 announced that the whole team was joining Cloudflare.

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Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, who had worked on Node.js, released Deno 1.0 in May 2020 as a fresh runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that fixed what they saw as Node's design mistakes. In March 2021 they announced the Deno company with $4.9 million in seed capital, in June 2022 raised $21 million led by Sequoia for Deno Deploy, shipped a Node-compatible Deno 2.0 in October 2024, challenged Oracle's JavaScript trademark, and in October 2026 announced that the whole team was joining Cloudflare.

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