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Svelte has a seamless SSR framework called SvelteKit that is platform-agnostic and made by the same people who make Svelte in the first place.

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Yes but the issue is that Vercel has all the core Svelte maintainers on their payroll too. My Q is why would we expect Vercel to not interject as well? I mean we have evidence they did this in one community library, why not another? That is the risk.

Svelte has a pretty prominent BDFL, having to corrupt him first might be enough.

Personally, I think the moment SvelteKit stops working on plain container images & Cloudflare Workers is the moment Svelte dies.

This simply isn't going to happen.

Just in case it wasn't clear: I mean this might be enough to prevent bad things from happening.

For sure — just wanted to be totally explicit that SvelteKit will always be platform agnostic

Thanks for the work you put into the Svelte platform, competition helps keep ecosystems more honest

> Svelte has a pretty prominent BDFL, having to corrupt him first might be enough.

I don't know him personally, but the power dynamics is clear: one person vs a corporation is often just one attractive offer away from significant changes

Talking about that, Vercel suddenly ejected many open source projects they "sponsored".

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