Super insightful. I hadn’t been able to articulate the same feelings.
Even as Next seppukus itself,
people will likely just fall back
to React on Vite…
This is my exact read on the situation, as well. I’m not sure if anything can meaningful affect React’s domination in the short-term or medium-term, even with the accumulation of poor choices.
I haven’t tried tanstack-start, but I wouldn’t be surprised it becomes the defacto react framework instead of next. Everything by Tanner Linsley is just so well thought out and the DX is amazing. If his framework is the same level of quality, without any major gaps compared to next, it will probably blow next out of the water.
And Tanner is already a huge name in the typescript/react world, so I think there is actually a chance.
I tried Deno for awhile — the ability to run Jupyter notebooks was a cool idea — but I’ve been Bun-only for around a year now. It’s just significantly faster and easier to use.
I’ve been primarily a Python developer since 2012 and recently switched to uv. The ability to manage dependencies, venv, and multiple Python versions makes it best-in-class now. It really is a fantastic tool.
I’ve always had a soft spot for the older Mac OS design, and I really love this implementation! I spent sooooo much time in windows and Linux doing various things to try and get that feel back