read the blogpost, they are discontinuing deno after 1 year

The fact that Deno development is being suspended doesn't mean the community can't step in. The Deno runtime is licensed under MIT. Such forks might be impulse to grow even further.

Or, we can also speculate that after one year, Cloudflare will create an internal Deno fork and will continue to reap the benefits and improvements.

Again, thanks to the MIT license.

People always say this but it's always an extreme mixed bag where most developers/maintainers just move on.

it’s open source. i’m hoping it gets picked up by the community. maybe i’m just too hopeful

The majority of the last year's development has been via LLM. I don't think anyone is going to want to fork that when they can just tell an LLM to do whatever and get the same result