Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, putting Evan You's JS toolchain under a CDN company

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Stack Overflow's podcast hosts VoidZero's Evan You and Cloudflare's Dane Knecht discussing Cloudflare's acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript tooling. VoidZero owns Vite, Rolldown, and Oxc — the core of the modern JS build chain. The open question the episode raises is whether corporate acquisition is now the only sustainable funding model for foundational open source, or a capture risk.