VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

karpetrosyan

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

orliesaurus

ok good for them. bun, astro, uv ... all acquired. Ok, what are the alternatives to vite/vitest?

aatd86

That was evident. It was designed that way :) Congrats.

holistio

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

rvz

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.

pier25

Weird situation for Vue. The Nuxt guys and Eduardo (creator of vue-router, pinia, etc) are working at Vercel while Evan is now at Cloudflare.

bakugo

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

EDM115

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

plumocracy

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

yanis_t

Congratulations to the team! I hope Evan and others got fabulously rich, they deserve it!

LoganDark

> 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.

tuananh

Amazing acquisition for Cloudflare.

hntiz

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.

embedding-shape

> Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. And a better Internet is an open Internet. Developers need choice, frameworks need a neutral foundation, and applications need to be portable. It is not reasonable to expect the entire web ecosystem to build around a single vendor. Already at this point, I start thinking that they're turning Vite into a foundation, or donating it to the Linux Foundation, or something like that. "foundation" is mentioned 10 times in total in various ways, but then some actual foundation creation/handover never came up. Even when they themselves state how important it is developers have choice and everything shouldn't centralized around a single vendor. Deeply ironic.

Sammi

The question I have is: Is Vite becoming the all-in-one nodejs tool that is replacing all the other full featured js tooling favorites like Bun, Deno and pnpm?

jesse_dot_id

Big fan of Cloudflare and a bigger fan of vite. Probably one of the best outcomes for the latter.

phplovesong

This goes down the same path. Every. Time. Thank god i did not use vite for anything serious. Esbuild is still my goto even after many years.

postalcoder

Had no idea Vite and OXC were made by the same company. Makes so much sense. I don’t get the complaining about OS developers behind these incredible pieces of software like uv, bun, etc is a bad thing. If anything, it’ll continue to incentivize great developers to fill in the blanks and continue to push things forward. It’s a win for everyone.

theaniketmaurya

So it's Vue vs Next now?