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Comment by kylehotchkiss | Hacker News Reader

I was surprised how calm the remix developers reactions to the next 13 announcement were given how similar some of the new next features are. But now it makes sense! Upcoming acquisition on the horizon.

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> Seeing that Next.js 13 preview before this acquisition would have put me in major defensive mode "HEY THATS OUR API" but now I'm just super chill and can work on Remix instead of my mental health

Because they cashed out, don't care anymore $_$. Looks like Shopify's diligence team should be blamed here.

Should they be though? I'm not at all familiar with the specifics at play here, but from a company perspective, a player they can then fully shepherd to prioritize their own needs/desires for, is still a win against an alternative that would be more expensive to acquire, and which if they don't they can't own priorities for.

Obviously there would need to be a balance between determining roadmap for your own needs, and building something to more broadly appeal to use in the outside world, but getting to influence that without creating a fork is still huge.

And that's without the other considerations of the acquihire aspect.

They already did some very public complaining about it several months ago when the Layouts RFC was first published.

I was curious, so I tracked down some of that public complaining:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220523220631/https://twitter.c...

HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31485733

I was expecting a lot more on release day!

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