Zach LeathermanMay 13, 2024

Unfortunately @baldur is exactly right — and this goes for darling frameworks, devtools, and SaaS too: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112428431536118693

The rise and fall of Gatsby.js is concrete evidence that millions in funding has no guarantee of long-term stability — especially for larger software shops (enterprise, education) with five or ten year project horizons. Once the runway is exhausted, that’s usually it and these shops are now forced to scope large-scale rewrites.

Baldur Bjarnason (@[email protected])

One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

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@baldur goes the same for every wordpress plugins or any softwares that have captured user base. If it's not 150% milked to the bone is wasted revenue opportunity for owners and shareholders. So the enshitification is guaranteed to happen at one point.

Current capitalism acceleration we are living under means that those people don't want to play the long run anymore. They want cash fast & dirty, then jump to the next. Like locusts going through a field. They will leave it dead.

May 13, 2024 at 8:55pmWeb