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hardwaregeek • today at 6:14 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Feels like there’s an era of devtools companies coming to a close. Astro, Astral, Deno, Bun, Turso, Void Zero all got acquired. I’m guessing there’s either very compelling acquisition offers being floated or the fundraising/revenue environment isn’t as friendly?


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swyx • today at 7:53 PM

or this is just normal startup M&A cycles and you just happened to pay attention to this one more closely

ToucanLoucan • today at 7:05 PM

Can't speak on the former but it's no secret on the latter: ALL the investor money is going into fucking AI right now, and it's suffocating anything else. Add to that the AI industry's taxing our silicon industry and we have a recipe for startup bloodbath.

For emphasis, I'm not saying fucking AI has no uses, I'm just saying I wish there was OTHER tech available to talk about too.

Onavo • today at 6:36 PM

Most of them are still alive and active, Deno is the exception here.