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by yencabulator 732 days ago
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.

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This simply isn't going to happen.
Thanks for the work you put into the Svelte platform, competition helps keep ecosystems more honest
Just in case it wasn't clear: I mean this might be enough to prevent bad things from happening.
For sure — just wanted to be totally explicit that SvelteKit will always be platform agnostic
> 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