Oh hey, they're the people behind Oxlint and Oxfmt: https://oxc.rs/
replyI moved some projects over to those from ESLint + Prettier and while the compatibility isn't 100% (I didn't need that), and the time to process a codebase went from like way over a minute with the old tools to a few seconds with theirs.
Looks interesting, what's their revenue model? Or how do we know it won't be abandoned in the near future?
replyThe same as any other dev tool startup, once money gets tight they will monetize and users will rightfully revolt.
replyEvan You won't break the cycle, tale as old as time.
After getting burned so many times on libraries, frameworks, services and platforms, even entire languages - one learns to be wary of critical dependencies. Every new project offers convenience in exchange for you giving up control of part of the software stack, and the power dynamic is often exploited sooner or later as revenue source. You can't trust anything that becomes irreplaceable, or that you can't write it (or at least understand it) yourself.
replyVoidZero's business model is in Void, their deployment platform. Open source projects will always stay open source. This was announced at the very beginning.
replyYes, nothing different from any other VC dev tool startup. When the community fractures people simply move on to something else. See rome -> biome for a very recent example.
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