[azemetre]

Since Vercel is doing this to React why would we think they wouldn’t also do this to Svelte?

Maybe I should check out Vue again, there’s something to be said about open source libraries that succeed without corporate ownership.

[yencabulator]

Svelte has a seamless SSR framework called SvelteKit that is platform-agnostic and made by the same people who make Svelte in the first place.

[azemetre]

Yes but the issue is that Vercel has all the core Svelte maintainers on their payroll too. My Q is why would we expect Vercel to not interject as well? I mean we have evidence they did this in one community library, why not another? That is the risk.

[meiraleal]

Talking about that, Vercel suddenly ejected many open source projects they "sponsored".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682711

[yencabulator]

Svelte has a pretty prominent BDFL, having to corrupt him first might be enough.

Personally, I think the moment SvelteKit stops working on plain container images & Cloudflare Workers is the moment Svelte dies.

[rich_harris]

This simply isn't going to happen.

[icpmacdo]

Thanks for the work you put into the Svelte platform, competition helps keep ecosystems more honest

[yencabulator]

Just in case it wasn't clear: I mean this might be enough to prevent bad things from happening.

[rich_harris]

For sure — just wanted to be totally explicit that SvelteKit will always be platform agnostic

[meiraleal]

> Svelte has a pretty prominent BDFL, having to corrupt him first might be enough.

I don't know him personally, but the power dynamics is clear: one person vs a corporation is often just one attractive offer away from significant changes