alt Hacker NewsGenuine question. Why are companies buying our runtimes ? What is the advantage ? Maintaining open source and having more adoption in specific softwares like runtimes and programming languages helps keep software more robust and reliable right ? Am I getting something wrong.
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mattvr • today at 3:23 PM
In this case, they're explicitly not buying the runtime. They're killing the runtime.
In this specific case, it's probably just aqui-hiring. There's a ton of incredible talent at Deno and Cloudflare can pay them a lot more
Also Deno was starting to try to increase revenue with stuff like Deno Deploy. If Deno did succeed, they would be a direct competitor with Cloudflare Workers
With Bun I think it was basically a marketing ploy. To show that it can be developed by AI and still useful