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I feel that open source is truly at its best when it’s done by enthusiasts/hobbyists and not necessarily by corporations. React and Nextjs always smelled a bit
by joshdavham 2y ago
I feel that open source is truly at its best when it’s done by enthusiasts/hobbyists and not necessarily by corporations. React and Nextjs always smelled a bit suspicious to me whereas Svelte and Vue did not.
There’s actually an old PG essay talking about Java where I feel a lot of what he says applies to Nextjs: https://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html https://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html
- owebmaster 2y ago> whereas Svelte and Vue did not. The svelte guy was hired by Vercel a few years ago and is completely on board. Same strategy used to co-opt React.
- joshdavham 2y agoI can't speak for Rich Harris, but Svelte and Sveltekit were never created as part of any company. These tools were created organically. To my knowledge, Rich is just an employee of Vercel where they pay him to work on it full time. Despite that, I believe that Svelte still aims to remain independent. I imagine that Vercel just wanted him in-house so they could keep their eye on the latest developments in the js-framework space.
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