I used Next a few years ago, I'm extremely weary of proprietary frameworks. Especially those with VC funds. I've been around long enough to knows what eventually happens to those tools (the company goes bust, no one wants to maintain it, and people move to new things).
I'd be more of a fan of Vercel if they moved ownership of Next.js to the OpenJS Foundation and gave monetary support through that org instead. Obviously this would require movements to have react there as well; but if you cared about nurturing an open ecosystem it seems like the altruistic move.
I'm exploring HTMX for certain use cases at work. That library feels like the only new innovation happening in the web dev world. All the other frameworks are way too "same-y." Angular, react, svelte, solid, vue; they're all riffing off each other which is fine, but none of them really offer something completely substantial from one another. Just different syntax, with different bundle sizes, with different performance.
I'd be more of a fan of Vercel if they moved ownership of Next.js to the OpenJS Foundation and gave monetary support through that org instead. Obviously this would require movements to have react there as well; but if you cared about nurturing an open ecosystem it seems like the altruistic move.
I'm exploring HTMX for certain use cases at work. That library feels like the only new innovation happening in the web dev world. All the other frameworks are way too "same-y." Angular, react, svelte, solid, vue; they're all riffing off each other which is fine, but none of them really offer something completely substantial from one another. Just different syntax, with different bundle sizes, with different performance.
HTMX is just wildly different in that regard.