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I think I'm of the same mentality. IMO a lot of the comments here are histrionics that they misrepresented (and outright lied in some cases) the gap in efficien
by aniforprez 4y ago
I think I'm of the same mentality. IMO a lot of the comments here are histrionics that they misrepresented (and outright lied in some cases) the gap in efficiency of their tool. But it's still somewhat better than the existing tooling. All of this also has very little to do with Vercel as a product which is still pretty good and can run almost anything without needing to use their framework NextJS. I don't use Vercel myself and am perfectly content with Netlify which does what I need and more but I don't think any of this dissuades me from using Vercel
Vercel simply has a lot of VC funding and is using marketing to sell their tooling and their platform. It's not unique to them, nor is it particularly egregious especially when Evan You himself clearly admits Turbopack is, in fact, slightly more performant than Vite. They lied about some benchmarks. Very dumb of them. I will move on and will not really avoid Vercel unless I have much more immediate concerns like their pricing or other ethics concerns that have more drastic effects
- apineda 4y agoI guess what irks people is when a big dog tries to gain "market share" with half truths, which may perhaps unjustly and negatively affect highly regarded open source efforts. I get that it sounds good though, better than "6% faster at the 30k module threshold".