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It’s not OSS :(

I figured with this type of blog post the finale would be, and everyone can try it out at…

Hopefully they do release it OSS eventually.

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They mention Pingora near the end, another similar project, which also isn't OSS so not sure I'd expect this project to eventually end up OSS.

Given that we open sourced the runtime for Cloudflare Workers, don't despair about us eventually open sourcing stuff.

> Even though Oxy is a proprietary project, we try to give back some love to the open-source community without which the project wouldn’t be possible by open-sourcing some of the building blocks such as https://github.com/cloudflare/boring and https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche.

They open sourced a few bits, but those were both mid-last year. I'd say quiche is more interesting than boring.

For a company that got so much out of NGINX for years this is disappointing.

NGINX was great for us for a long time. But there comes a time where your needs and their future plans diverge. We couldn’t keep maintaining a fork and we had features that would have meant a huge effort to shoehorn into the NGINX architecture.

And NGINX is written in C and we really wanted to use less memory-unsafe languages after Cloudbleed.

This is a massive segue, but where would memory-unsafe languages be acceptable for use at Cloudflare? I'm assuming existing software that needs to be maintained would be one of the them but what about low-level firmware, kernel code, and so on? Would Rust would a replacement to C in those areas too?

Yes I understand. I’m not complaining about you writing Oxy I’m complaining about the proprietary license after you derived so much value from Open Source, same as the parent comment.

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