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VoidZero
@voidzero.dev

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare. Our mission stays the same: to make JavaScript developers more productive than ever before. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ remain MIT-licensed. Evan and the VoidZero team will continue leading them.

Greg Munt
@gregmunt.com

Name one team acquired by a large corporation that has gone on to do greater things. Just one. Obviously things like GitHub and NPM are the counter-examples.

Greg Munt
@gregmunt.com

I've not used Svelte at all and dabbled in Nuxt years ago, but no more than that. So my knowledge of the two and exposure to their communities is limited.

Greg Munt
@gregmunt.com

However, brief research confirms that all is ok. There are concerns about multiple projects or core devs being related to or employed by Vercel (Next/React, Svelte, Nuxt), but no evidence that anything bad has happened.

Greg Munt
@gregmunt.com

I guess the only real concern I'd have is that Vercel develops into a semi-monopoly in terms of JS deployment platform... But, again, no evidence to support that.

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Greg Munt
@gregmunt.com

Though, Vercel engaging Svelte and Nuxt is relatively recent. Services sliding downwards, like LinkedIn and GitHub/NPM, were acquired around a decade ago. Though that feels like grasping at straws. More likely it is related to the org that acquired LinkedIn and GitHub.

Alexander Lichter
@thealexlichter.com

Svelte has been multiple years, Nuxt almost one. And both projects also have independent contributors (similar to most VoidZero projects) that aren’t affiliated with the company.

Caches
@gfdc.dev

I've been using svelte from before they adquired the maintainers, and what I felt was that the framework actually got a lot more serious, but not in a bad way. I'm obviously not a fan of the CEO who takes pictures with Netanyahu, but so far they haven't put their hands in the framework yet.