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Why does Cloudflare need a web framework? Most obvious would be they think they can make money from hosting astro sites (like Vercel and NextJS). I hope Cloudflare's impact on Astro will be tiny. But another great thing being swallowed by big tech...

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arcanemachiner|1 month ago

> But another great thing being swallowed by big tech...

I will never use Cloudflare if I can help it, but this outcome is preferable to Astro becoming abandonware.

phartenfeller|1 month ago

There are so many more options than being acquired and abandonware. Its hard but there are many independent and stable open source projects.

arcfour|1 month ago

This is overly cynical without reason. CloudFlare is hardly "big tech" even if it is a "big" "tech" company. They have no record of killing or abusing open source projects.

phartenfeller|1 month ago

Maybe not by market capitalization but Cloudflare is used by around 25 % of the web. Internet giant in my books.

blibble|1 month ago

> CloudFlare is hardly "big tech"

yeah, it's still losing money

dvtkrlbs|1 month ago

They are using astro starlight for their docs page and using astro itself in number of their landing pages.