> why? unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...why acquire and kill?

Aquihiring is a time-tested strategy to build out a team. The Deno folks likely have a bunch of experience that Cloudflare is well placed to make use of

I assume the logic is something like this:

- We want to do more work on our runtime and need people to do it

- Those developers for that company over are there working on another runtime

- Buying that company allows them to come work for us without any potential issues from investors in that other company