Most of them are still alive and active, Deno is the exception here.

Can't speak on the former but it's no secret on the latter: ALL the investor money is going into fucking AI right now, and it's suffocating anything else. Add to that the AI industry's taxing our silicon industry and we have a recipe for startup bloodbath.

For emphasis, I'm not saying fucking AI has no uses, I'm just saying I wish there was OTHER tech available to talk about too.

or this is just normal startup M&A cycles and you just happened to pay attention to this one more closely

Right, they said an era is coming to a close. Their tone’s maybe wistful but not final. M&A cycle is an expression of the same idea? New era beginning. Containers and sandboxes and “harnesses” are in. (I hate that word harness - wish we’d call them rigs or something with less questionable metaphor.)

harness initially annoyed me as well. i asked chatgpt why it’s called a harness and since then im now fully onboard heh.

the agent explained that the metaphor is about steering, a horse harness steers but it’s not technically the control, it’s a suggestion to the horse. The harness is about defining boundaries and such. You perhaps already know this, it’s just that in this instant-meme world, the fact that a word has a substantive meaning is comforting.