The company blog of VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Rolldown, and Oxc, covering JavaScript tooling, funding, and its Cloudflare acquisition.
HN links it for the Cloudflare acquisition and funding news; commenters discuss the price per employee and compare Oxc to Biome and ESLint.
Biome is still missing support for lots of eslint plugins that I like so I ended up with Biome plus just those cherry picked ESLint plugins and rules. It's not great..
https://voidzero.dev/ is also working on https://oxc.rs/ sounding nice since I already enjoy vite and it seems to have some funding but I fear it'll end up likewise..
They've raised over $16 million [0]. For a decent 3-5x return for that, they would need to have been acquired for around ~$50 million. For a team of 19 [1], thats around $2.5 million per employee for Cloudflare. Worth it? no idea
[0] https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-series-a
[1] https://voidzero.dev/about
Casey Aylward from Accel has been mentioned in all void0 company posts. So she must have been very useful for the founder. (I don't have any insider information about void0, I've met her a few times and she is amazing)
https://voidzero.dev/posts/voidzero-cloudflare#acknowledgements
Vite 8 is in beta, so you can try it out already. See https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-vite-8-beta
Rolldown is in RC, meaning no more breaking changes (except for experimental features). See https://voidzero.dev/posts/announcing-rolldown-rc
Looks like the same people to me:
https://vite.dev/team.html
https://voidzero.dev/team
Voidzero Inc owns the Vite trademark:
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98845059&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch
Doesn't seem like it — see VoidZero investors [0].
> Unfortunately for Bun, if they are forced to help Anthropic more than they can focus on OSS
Curious: is that speculation, or based on observation?
[0]: https://voidzero.dev/about