alt Hacker NewsThe buried lede here is the Astro acquisition timing. Cloudflare bought Astro a month ago, and now they're showing they can replicate Next.js's API surface with AI in a week. The strategic play isn't vinext itself — it's signaling to the market that framework lock-in is dissolving.
If you're a Next.js shop stuck on Vercel because self-hosting is painful, Cloudflare just gave you two exit ramps: Astro (for new projects) and vinext (for existing ones). Whether vinext is production-ready today matters less than what it represents for Vercel's pricing power.
The real question nobody's asking: if your framework's value can be replicated by targeting its test suite, what exactly are you paying for with Vercel's premium tiers? The answer used to be "the only place Next.js runs well." That moat is eroding fast.
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as much as people hate nextjs, no one is going to migrate their production app to a "one week old project"
Even cloudfare mentions that this is still in experimental phase.
In future, it may become something worthwhile. maybe enough for vercel to kill turbopack for good.
Cloudflare also backs https://opennext.js.org/
> if your framework's value can be replicated by targeting its test suite,
Side note: this is also why SQLite's full test suite is proprietary / private
https://sqlite.org/th3.html