Ryan Dahl

Ryan Dahl (born 1981) is an American software engineer who is best known for creating the Node.js JavaScript runtime as well as the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime.

Biography Dahl grew up in San Diego, California. His mother bought him an Apple IIc when he was six years old, one of his first experiences with technology. Dahl attended a community college in San Diego and later transferred into UC San Diego where he studied mathematics. He went on to attend grad school for Mathematics at the University of Rochester where he studied algebraic topology, which he found "very abstract and beautiful" for a couple of years but later got bored of it because "it was not so applicable to real life".

Node.js On May 27, 2009, Dahl released his project, the Node.js runtime.

Dahl gave the following reason for moving on from the project:

Deno In 2018, Dahl announced Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8.