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+Document: WM-105                                                 P. Webb
+Category: Tooling                                             2026-10-11
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+                         Beginning of the Ende
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+Abstract
+
+   The trend of VC-backed tooling ending in abandonment rears its ugly
+   head again. But hey, people gotta eat, right? The community will pick
+   up the slack and steward the projects, right?
+
+Body
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+   Deno is dead.
+
+   Announced[1] on a Friday[2], of course, the team has fled to
+   Cloudflare and in a year, will stop working on the runtime. Kudos to
+   them for finding an exit, Womp womp to us.
+
+   This is the second time in just as many years that a technology I
+   depend on is “given up to the community.” If you’re new here, Disc[3]
+   came about because the team behind Gel fled to Vercel and gave their
+   project up to the community. This was two years ago and as of this
+   writing, no updates have been made on the “blessed” fork[4] of it.
+
+   (Perhaps a bit petty of me to point out but someone in the Gel
+   Discord has been rather hostile/cowardly about my efforts and thus I
+   find delight in proving assholes wrong)
+
+   The frustration of the Deno community is palpable and has created the
+   best crashout[5] I’ve seen in some time:
+
+   > What the fuck do you mean Deno is ending development in a year????
+   >
+   > I JUST learned how to use this stupid runtime.
+   >
+   > I don't give a fuck about your Cloudflare acquisition or your edge
+   > computing or whatever the fuck a Durable Object is.
+   >
+   > I JUST WANT TO RUN MY TYPESCRIPT FILES.
+   >
+   > Why is there a shutdown date????
+   >
+   > WHERE IS THE FUCKING DOWNLOAD BUTTON FOR MORE YEARS OF SUPPORT????
+   >
+   > I went to the releases page and there is no deno-forever.exe.
+   >
+   > WHY IS THERE NO deno-forever.exe?????
+   >
+   > Just compile another 10 years of development into a fucking
+   > executable and give it to me.
+   >
+   > I don't want to learn Node.js again.
+   >
+   > I don't want to migrate to Bun.
+   >
+   > I don't want to understand your business model.
+   >
+   > I JUST WANT MY DINOSAUR BACK.
+   >
+   > You cannot just Deno.exit(0) an entire runtime.
+   >
+   > STUPID FUCKING CLOUD NERDS.
+
+   Ryan Dahl’s comment[6] on HackerNews gave me pause (emphasis mine):
+
+   > It's a joint decision and I agree with it. I'm most invested in its
+   > success and have put the most work into it - and I no longer think
+   > it's where I can do the most important work. **There are some**
+   > **good ideas in Deno and it's well engineered - but it ultimately**
+   > **is not solving big problems. It has been sucked into the**
+   > **gravity well of node compatibility, which forces it to behave**
+   > **exactly as Node does. Why reimplement Node? It works. Marginal**
+   > **performance or UX or security benefits are not enough.**
+   >
+   > …
+   >
+   > We'll ship monthly releases for a year, and Deno stays
+   > MIT-licensed. If people want to carry it forward, I'd like that.
+
+   My brother in Christ. YOU reimplemented Node and now you’re bored? I
+   get it was done for adoption purposes but like, that’s a solvable
+   problem? Whatever, this ain’t my first rodeo[7].
+
+   There’s bound to be other forks but this one’s mine; I’m calling it,
+   Ende (“end” in German). “Ende” is an anagram of “Deno” which is an
+   anagram of “Node” and it’ll do things differently:
+
+   — no more Node compatibility
+   — no more distractions, period; that means Deploy, KV, Jupyter, &c
+     are also getting the boot
+
+   The roadmap? Per-module permissions, sandboxes for untrusted code,
+   post-quantum crypto in Web Crypto, better binary output, &c. I depend
+   on Deno for all of my APIs and personal projects, and now am building
+   a serious business on it; EOL[8].
+
+   📸[EOL Program][IMG1]
+
+   I’m aiming for a soft launch in December so I can work out production
+   kinks before a proper one. It’s gonna be quite the flex when Ende
+   development is happening on EOL. Anyhoo, placeholder site for Ende[9]
+   is up, subscribe to the mailing list if you want to be notified when
+   it’s “official” (proper marketing and documentation websites). EOL
+   also has a mailing list[8] if you want to know when the beta opens.
+
+   I am very busy but excited. I wanted to build the Neue Internet[10]
+   after all, looks like I’m getting my chance. 🕸️
+
+References
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+   [1] <https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare>
+   [2] <https://blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-cloudflare>
+   [3] <https://disc.sh>
+   [4] <https://github.com/gelstable/gel>
+   [5] <https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/37004>
+   [6] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023277>
+   [7] </WM-095>
+   [8] <https://eol.sh>
+   [9] <https://ende.sh>
+   [10] </WM-078>
+   [IMG1] <https://cdn.webb.page/blog/2026/wm-105-a.JPG>
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