[shimman]

Deno is a great example of how taking VC investments tanks the viability of an open source project. They keep focusing on money driving projects for an extremely small + fractured community (let's be honest here, whose only customers who are likely other VC holdings), oh and having continuous major layoffs does not signal good leadership qualities.

Ryan Dahl is assuredly a poor steward of open source software if these are the results. Node is popular because of the massive, inclusive community behind it; not because of a few rock star individuals, but for the VC mindset it's much easier to control an individual programmer than a community of them.

Only wonders are what other communities VC will try to rat fuck next, how fast do we think Evan You will speed run this exact same arc (which has already happened a dozen times in lived memory), and why does Bryan Cantrill feel like the only smart tech executive that doesn't fall into these traps?