Goodbye WinterCG, welcome WinterTC
Deno has always been committed to web standards and runtime interoperability. Here at Deno, we believe that the web is the most important development platform in the world - poised to outlive all other development platforms. We believe that the APIs that make up the web are so ubiquitous that they should not be constrained to just the browser. They should be usable by any developer, including server-side developers.
That is why in 2021, Deno joined Ecma International to participate in TC39, and in 2022 co-founded the Web Interoperable Runtimes Community Group (WinterCG) at the W3C to promote runtime interoperability through web standards. Since then WinterCG has been working on standards of it’s own, such as the Minimum Common API. However, as a W3C Community Group, WinterCG was not able to publish this standard.
Today, we are excited to announce that WinterCG is moving to Ecma International, as Ecma International Technical Committee 55 (TC55). This move enables WinterTC (the new name of the group) to publish standards, such as our Minimum Common API.
