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Comment by difu_disciple | Hacker News Reader

Remix might be a few years too late to be honest.

After watching the session, there does not appear to be any significant differences from Next.

the team behind remix probably has the biggest following in the react scene, so even without having any major differentiation (though I happen to think they do have) it's going to gain popularity.

I'm sure outside of my personal bubble this won't be an issue, but I've found the buzz generated from this announcement to be kind of off-putting. The sheer amount of promotion leading up to this announcement has been in my face now for weeks and kind of driving me nuts.

That being said I see no reason to not welcome another competitor in this space... and it's free. I'm sure you are right and this will gain popularity, though the competition is stiff.

I get what you mean, the frontend dev community on Twitter seem childish and unnatural, spamming self gratification (don't know if it's the good term, basically trying to spread fake positivity all the time, trying to over talk about the inclusivity and woke social trends ) stuff and overusing using emojis.

I rarely check twitter but yesteday's Kent Dodds message section about a tweet announcing Remix's launch made me cringe.

I'm sure many of the frontend dev Twitter influencers are genuine, but I do get a similar vibe. Some of the conversations just don't feel real at all, very similar to _some_ church circles.

I'd never heard of Remix before today. To contrast, I heard about Next 3-4 years ago, despite not using it at work until a few months ago

Well Remix just released today, so it's not surprising you haven't heard about it. You'd have to follow Ryan, Michael and Kent, the people behind remix.

Guillermo Rauch (main dude behind Next and Vercel) was well known in the scene before next which also helped it gain the initial traction to build upon.

Feels like a similar case. IIRC remix wasn't suppose to be open source, but feels like nowadays it's a better choice for them to go the Next route and build services around their framework.

My bet is they'll build a Cloudflare Edge Suite abstraction (or even get bought by CF for their edge offerings)

> and Kent, the people behind remix

Is Kent also a person behind remix now? It used to be just Michael and Ryan, best known in the react space for react-router, and in the frontend ecosystem more generally for unpkg (Michael).

UPDATED: oh, I just found his tweet about him joining the Remix team.

Yes, but just because marketing.

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