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Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

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Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

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Post by WJW »

covidcovidcovid wrote: post #43
sandGorgon wrote: post #12

Nextjs is most likely going to be the new Ruby on Rails. javascript all the way down, static rendering, PWA, server side rendering...everything baked in. This is a big backing for Next. However rebranding to Vercel is bad.

I prefer to use other languages on backend something like C#, because JavaScript is too error-prone. You can't even just add two numbers (try (0.1 + 0.2) === 0.3) without some workarounds. and there are millions other issues with the language.

0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 returns false in all the interpreters I have installed locally (Ruby, Python, NodeJS and Haskell), and you can't with a straight face pretend that Haskells type system is not strict enough.

Because I was curious, I tested it out with C# on repl.it and behold, 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 returns false in C# as well: https://repl.it/repls/AdoredValidVirtualmachines. Not very surprising of course, since that "error" is a result of the IEEE floating point spec and not of any language.

Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

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Post by franky47 »

sandGorgon wrote: post #41
franky47 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the objective of Blitz.js [1]: build on top of Next.js for a rails-like experience, but made by an independent open-source community. [1] https://blitzjs.com/ - https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz

This is very cool. One suggestion - I highly recommend you mention that you're leveraging nextjs. There is a certain buy-in that nextjs has that would be hard elsewhere. In fact I would say that I would totally pay an annual subscription for this (even on "starter marketplaces" like themeforest).

It's not my project, you can probably talk about it with its creator: https://twitter.com/flybayer

Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

#53

Post by [deleted] »

k__ wrote: post #39
franky47 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the objective of Blitz.js [1]: build on top of Next.js for a rails-like experience, but made by an independent open-source community. [1] https://blitzjs.com/ - https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz

Pretty slick! I thought about making "higher level" frameworks by combining "lower level" frameworks myself. How did you do it? I mean, it's not just wrapping the libraries, but also the CLIs.

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Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

#54

Post by zaiste »

sandGorgon wrote: post #12

Nextjs is most likely going to be the new Ruby on Rails. javascript all the way down, static rendering, PWA, server side rendering...everything baked in. This is a big backing for Next. However rebranding to Vercel is bad.

That's also the objective of Kretes [1], a programming environment for TypeScript & Node.js (soon Deno) with built-in support for plain SQL and GraphQL

[1]: https://kretes.dev/

Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

#55

Post by kreetx »

adriand wrote: post #45

As someone who has been involved in many branding projects, it is amusing to see all the negative commentary on the rebrand. This is human nature 101. Everyone always hates rebrands. In fact I am willing to bet that the executives who eventually bought into this new name also hated the new name when they heard it. Whenever we presented a new name to a company that wanted to be rebranded, we always asked them not to p…

But what if this one specifically is a bad rebranding?

Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

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Post by [deleted] »

adriand wrote: post #45

As someone who has been involved in many branding projects, it is amusing to see all the negative commentary on the rebrand. This is human nature 101. Everyone always hates rebrands. In fact I am willing to bet that the executives who eventually bought into this new name also hated the new name when they heard it. Whenever we presented a new name to a company that wanted to be rebranded, we always asked them not to p…

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Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

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Post by Davertron »

WJW wrote: post #51
covidcovidcovid wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer to use other languages on backend something like C#, because JavaScript is too error-prone. You can't even just add two numbers (try (0.1 + 0.2) === 0.3) without some workarounds. and there are millions other issues with the language.

0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 returns false in all the interpreters I have installed locally (Ruby, Python, NodeJS and Haskell), and you can't with a straight face pretend that Haskells type system is not strict enough. Because I was curious, I tested it out with C# on repl.it and behold, 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 returns false in C# as well: https://repl.it/repls/AdoredValidVirtualmachines . Not very surprising of course, since that "err…

Thank you, I'm so sick of this being used as an example of why JavaScript is bad...

Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

#59

Post by mcsdev »

ezzzzz wrote: post #56

Literally just discovered Zeit, what I liked about it was the ability to choose different run-times, with a generous free tier, with none of the existential baggage of the other PAAS's options out there. Sigh, oh well.

Everything you liked about ZEIT is present in Vercel! You can read more about it in our rebrand field book: https://www.notion.so/Vercel-Launch-1cab2369ab1c4d8db1987b68...

Re: Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A

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Post by DagAgren »

tango12 wrote: post #15
franky47 wrote: post #6

Congrats on the funding, but I'd like to know what prompted the name change. ZEIT sounded mysterious and edgy, while Vercel sounds like a company selling expensive handbags (to me).

EDIT: Not sure why, but from the article: > Vercel strongly connects to the words versatile, accelerate, and excel.

I connected it to none of those words. Instead, I connected it to a) some kind of telephone company that is dodgy b) incels.
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