Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by mattgreenrocks on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:20PM
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This is insane to me, and validates my irrational dislike of next.
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Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by hungryhobbit on Friday January 16, 2026 @12:31PM
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Definitely irrational. There are lots of logical reasons to dislike Next (like the fact that they pile new shiny bit on top of new shiny bit without caring about the regular user experience) ... but being mad that it can't run on Vite is silly.
It's like being mad that Rails can't run on Python, or that React can't run on jQuery. Next already has its own build system, so of course it doesn't work with another build system.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro
by mattgreenrocks on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:02PM
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Isn’t the next.js build system known for being slow/memory hungry?
For those stuck in the past yes, they have replaced it with a Rust based toolchain, as is so fashionable nowadays.
Luckily DX is much better now with Turbopack as a bundler. First they improved the dev server, now with Turbo builds the production builds are faster as well. Still not fully stable in my opinion, but they will get there.
It's also wise to use monorepo orchestration with build caching like Turborepo.
They did well on the turbo stuff, no doubt about it.
The main bottleneck with big projects in my experience is Typescript. Looking forward to the Go rewrite. :)