[rk06]

It sounds pretty good until you realise that it is the peak of open source full time job. And survivorship bias is taking place here.

Evan took a huge leap of faith when he quit his job for working full time on vue. I am happy that it has worked out well for him.

But it does not mean this path will work for other open source developers, of course they can still get corporate backing(node.js) or paid to work on it (react/angular) or make a business offering around it (laravel/tailwind)

This road is very less travelled.

[wolco]

This is new and exciting but we must understand the use case. For solo developers on projects with a huge amount of github stars this might make sense. It enables you to work on the project full time.

The tailwind project model seems like it would pay better. The profit amount might make for sense for the pretty popular project vs the extremely popular project. It's a compromise because you stop working on the core project and start building these additional businesses that take time/effort away the project.

Corporate backing would make sense but enterprise has picked react. Vue lives because it's a great framework that is easily assessible not because it started as a corporate sponsored project with a popularity boost buildin.