VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare • Hacker News Board

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

holistio wrote: post #6

Do we have any chance left of using software for our work without Big Tech behind it?

Yes, pay for its development.

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by notnullorvoid » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:13 PM UTC

aatd86 wrote: post #44

karpetrosyan wrote: post #3

It's always scary to see an open source organization being acquired

Yeah but people don't want to pay for software so all open source is basically subsidized.

If you look at it broadly nearly all software is subsidized by open source, so it's a smart choice to send some subsidies back to open source.

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by embedding-shape » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

demetris wrote: post #52

I love Vite, when I don’t forget it exists in my projects. It took things that made you feel mentally deficient and made them almost zero-config. This news does not make me happy. Same with the news about Astro earlier this year. I know it must be good for the people how have made the projects (why else would they chose to do it?) but there is something in those acquisitions that makes me uneasy.

> I know it must be good for the people how have made the projects (why else would they chose to do it?) but there is something in those acquisitions that makes me uneasy.

Same, kind of conflicting. Happy for the individuals involved, they've probably more than earned it. Slightly sad about what comes next, as I'm guessing both you and me seen this happen so many times before, and we've learned to read past the always-reiterated "Nothing will change, everything keeps on being great forever".

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

raincole wrote: post #60

holistio wrote: post #6

Do we have any chance left of using software for our work without Big Tech behind it?

Linux has Big Tech behind it too and few complain about that.

Because they would be complaining having to pay for Solaris, HP-UX, Aix instead.

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by holografix » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:14 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #65

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

What’s the Google one? Flutter?

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC

holografix wrote: post #75

pjmlp wrote: post #65

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

What’s the Google one? Flutter?

Angular.

Flutter hardly matters.

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by esafak » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

bakugo wrote: post #9

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

As mentioned, Vite is already Rust, plus the same developers (the subject of the news) have developed https://viteplus.dev/

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by timdavid2026 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

Interesting acquisition. Curious how VoidZero's tech will integrate with Cloudflare's stack.

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by Raed667 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

aatd86 wrote: post #44

karpetrosyan wrote: post #3

It's always scary to see an open source organization being acquired

Yeah but people don't want to pay for software so all open source is basically subsidized.

+200 people/orgs are listed as vite github sponsors

Re: VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

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Post by creamyhorror » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

hntiz wrote: post #22

I think, just from a purely build-step point of view, it's been evident that tools like Vite, Bun, etc. have achieved all they meaningfully can. If I was the creator of these tools, I've move on too. Good luck and thanks for everything.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.