VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

Great grab for cloudflare tbh. Excited to see where this goes :)

Really love Cloudflare and I think they've been doing a great job with these acquisitions. Love how they've handled integrating PartyKit with Durable Objects

When will deno be bought?

This was unexpected.

see also https://voidzero.dev/posts/voidzero-cloudflare & https://vite.dev/blog/cloudflare-supports-vite

I just hope there's not some bullshit publicity stunt coming in a few weeks.

"We just ported Vite to ActionScript in 11 minutes, we swear for legit technical reasons"

I knew this was going to happen the moment they mentioned in a demo that Void, their development platform, was build on top of Cloudflare.

> Before saying anything else, we want to make the most important thing clear: Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will stay open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven. Nothing about that changes.

Given how every single acquisition like this has gone, especially lately, I look forward to seeing how quickly these products get left behind and unmaintained as their entire team move onto things at CF.

Cool.

So it's Vue vs Next now?

When will deno be bought

ok good for them.

bun, astro, uv ... all acquired.

Ok, what are the alternatives to vite/vitest?

So now each major SPA framework belongs to a cloud provider, Vercel, Cloudflare and Google.

For anyone pissing on this, you have to remember one thing... time equals money and, as someone who spent 7 years building an open source project, you make almost ZERO from doing it. At the end, if you want to continue the project, you have to sell your soul somehow, either by doing a paid tier, consulting or getting corporate sponsorship. Unless you are one of the VERY lucky ones that does the coding on the side while having a full time job (which I was in the VERY fortunate position to be in at the time).

It's going to come down to "can I afford to keep doing this for nothing"?

So for all you high and mighty people calling them sell outs and what not, I would love to see how much you've been contributing to the project in order for it to keep going.

I think what CloudFlare is doing is a good thing. They get a tremendous team that they can have help work on their infrastructure while keeping the open source projects alive.

This is what happens when developers do not pay for their tools. Companies instead take full control over it and the team then loses their independence.

Just like Bun, Astral and Astro, did VoidZero ever make any money?

If not then this is why open source alone is unsustainable, especially in the age of AI.

It’s scary how cf has become this giant tech corporation. If cf has issues, we see a cascading effect across the many services we depend on. With the age of AI slop, it’s only going to get worse.

I for one love this. Cloudflare is doing really excellent job last few years and of all the companies, this acquisition will not hurt developers like those other might or already do.

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Alright, so, how long until the current Vite codebase is replaced by a vibe coded Rust port? I give it a month or two.

Vibe coded rewrite in rust upcoming!