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What's the revenue model for Bun? What happens when the VC funding runs out?
by pritambarhate 3y ago
What's the revenue model for Bun? What happens when the VC funding runs out?
- marviel 3y agoI'm not sure why this is being downvoted -- it feels like a valid question for anything that enjoys wide adoption.
- fastball 3y agoIt's a valid question, but does it matter for anyone except the dev team? Bun is open source, so VC-backing is mostly a helpful jumpstart. If they find a viable business model – great, development can be funded in perpetuity. If they don't, development was funded for a while by someone else's money and then Bun is just like any other open source project that lacks direct funding (most of them).
- marviel 3y agoI suppose you're right -- the MIT model makes it a non-issue
- toastercat 3y agoI think it does matter. Open-source software can still suffer from "enshittification" when there is constant need to generate profit. Fortunately it is open source, so it can be forked when things get bad, but even then there still may be lots of tech debt to undo.
- erhaetherth 3y agoRight...but if you're going to fork it and create fragmentation, then we might as well go back to Node which has at least been stable for the past few years.
- eddd-ddde 3y agoI imagine some hosted service like everyone does is a likely option.
- alberth 3y agoJavascript edge hosting. Bun team stated that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966373