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Rome (written in Rust) is trying to be a faster tsc (amongst other things, like a faster webpack, babel, prettier, etc) https://rome.tools/#development-status

Rome (written in Rust) is trying to be a faster tsc (amongst other things, like a faster webpack, babel, prettier, etc) https://rome.tools/#development-status https://rome.tools/#development-status

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e1g 4y ago
Rome’s journey is effectively over - the founders couldn’t make it work after raising a VC round, and I wouldn’t expect it to go GA.
- jquery_dev 4y ago
  What do you mean by "make it work"? They've raised 4.5M last year, did they just burn through that?
  - lazlo_kovacs 4y ago
    It appears from their repo that they have 5-6 people working full time on this. Assuming about 250k per developer that puts their burn at 6 * 250k = 1.5 million a year. So yeah they have some time. Although I would be severely concerned at their progress considering it’s already been a year and they don’t seem to have shipped much. No proof of PMF or any sort of revenue with over a third of their runway depleted should have them hustling to get on the boards.
- dsmmcken 4y ago
  The repo still looks pretty active, which seems contrary to your statement.
  - e1g 4y ago
    If you're looking for evidence in the public repo, consider what's not in there: one co-founder is missing, and so are the commits from the other author/co-founder for over a year. Not the signals you want in a dev-tooling project.
    - pohl 4y ago
      Or you could look to see if new work is being released. Most recent one was just 17 days ago. https://twitter.com/rometools/status/1567169157891776514 https://twitter.com/rometools/status/1567169157891776514
      - lazlo_kovacs 4y ago
        Except how many users do they have? If I were a VC fund looking to give them another round, I’d want to know their metrics, whether that’s users, downloads, or revenue. Judging by their blog, it’s been a year since they raised the money. Have they produced anything other than a bunch of code? Because code isn’t worth much without users.
    - ricardobeat 4y ago
      I found it interesting that a good chunk of outside contributions[1] happened before funding, and have almost completely stopped. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors

Rome (written in Rust) is trying to be a faster tsc (amongst other things, like a faster webpack, babel, prettier, etc) https://rome.tools/#development-status https://rome.tools/#development-status

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e1g 4y ago

Rome’s journey is effectively over - the founders couldn’t make it work after raising a VC round, and I wouldn’t expect it to go GA.

jquery_dev 4y ago
What do you mean by "make it work"? They've raised 4.5M last year, did they just burn through that?
- lazlo_kovacs 4y ago
  It appears from their repo that they have 5-6 people working full time on this. Assuming about 250k per developer that puts their burn at 6 * 250k = 1.5 million a year. So yeah they have some time. Although I would be severely concerned at their progress considering it’s already been a year and they don’t seem to have shipped much. No proof of PMF or any sort of revenue with over a third of their runway depleted should have them hustling to get on the boards.
dsmmcken 4y ago
The repo still looks pretty active, which seems contrary to your statement.
- e1g 4y ago
  If you're looking for evidence in the public repo, consider what's not in there: one co-founder is missing, and so are the commits from the other author/co-founder for over a year. Not the signals you want in a dev-tooling project.
  - pohl 4y ago
    Or you could look to see if new work is being released. Most recent one was just 17 days ago. https://twitter.com/rometools/status/1567169157891776514 https://twitter.com/rometools/status/1567169157891776514
    - lazlo_kovacs 4y ago
      Except how many users do they have? If I were a VC fund looking to give them another round, I’d want to know their metrics, whether that’s users, downloads, or revenue. Judging by their blog, it’s been a year since they raised the money. Have they produced anything other than a bunch of code? Because code isn’t worth much without users.
  - ricardobeat 4y ago
    I found it interesting that a good chunk of outside contributions[1] happened before funding, and have almost completely stopped. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors