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I think it's an acquihire. They don't necessarily want Gatsby. They want the team who built Gatsby.

I'm surprised this was the only other comment so far about it. It has to be an acquihire. Gatsby is a dead framework going forward.

Why is it dead?

and

What are the alternatives?

Next.js the comparison shown in those charts

I would not consider Next.js an alternative as it's missing a lot of the static website generation features.

I don't think that it has server side GraphQL and Typescript support with data preloading from headless CMSs.

Astro.build perhaps

try it and you'll see, also have you heard the name Gatsby in the past 2 years? I think not.

Why do you call it a dead framework?

Strange time to do an acquihire given that Netlify just had a round of layoffs.

Just means Gatsby's talent is more desired than those they employed.