648: Speculating on Funding Open Source

Hey there, Shoponomics. You are listening to another episode of the ShopDoc Show. I'm Dave in the shadow reboot room. It's Chris in the office choir. Hey, Chris. How are you doing today? Not bad. My friend, Dave, thanks for having me on the show. You know? Another week. Or another another week and another year. We're doing it. Powering through. We're almost to six fifty. Holy cow. Yeah. That's a big one. Lot of big stuff going on for us, you know, personally and professionally, whatever. But we have a plan this week to talk about just do a little, a little idle speculation because I think a podcast is the perfect the perfect place for this sort of thing. I mean, I know I know everyone comes here for hardcore cutting journalism, you know. Just the facts. Yeah. Yeah. That's just everyone knows that. You can know that walking down the street. But, you know, maybe we'll do some speculation on this episode. So Yeah. We always reach out to every party before we say a word to get their comments. We get their comments, and then we definitely read the docs, and we definitely, you know, like Uh-huh. Yeah. Do research. That's what we do. Way I involved. So one of the the thing that we're gonna speculate about this time is I think, like, the the world of tooling around front end development and the companies and players involved, I just think is so fascinating. I forgot how I started thinking about it, but it it's partially because there's a number of, like, there's, like, rising stars. Have you seen that survey data that comes out in the state of JS and stuff like that? I am. It tends to be, happening this time of year where you start seeing, like, developer surveys results. Mhmm. Mhmm. And we saw a couple of those. And and Veit is always, like, one of the major winners, the last couple of years at least, since since it rolled out. I mean, Veit arrived to fanfare and has only gotten bigger. Veet, of course, being v I t e by Evan Yu, previously famous for Vee. Although I read a funny Reddit comment the other day that's like it was it was like, everybody knows Evan from Vee. But, you know, did you know he was the VUE guy too before that? I was like, I very much associate him with VUE personally. I don't know if that makes me old school, but apparently he's the VUE guy now. There's a new cohort afoot. Yeah. Okay. Cool. It'd be hard to measure those two things, but do you think Vee is, like, a bigger deal in the world than Vee. Js is? I I I would say, like, potentially. Yeah. I think I'm there too. I think, yeah, it probably is. There's a ubiquity to Vee. Like I'm using Vite, on two projects, like three projects in like, and I …