10 Years of Independent OSS: A Retrospective
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Ten years of independent OSS shows concrete outcomes: Vue accumulates 2.2M users, 250k+ GitHub stars and a 56% reactivity memory reduction in recent work; Vite reaches 13M weekly downloads and becomes shared infra for many meta-frameworks; a Rust toolchain and bundler are underway—oxc language toolchain and rown bundler in progress—aiming for faster dev/prod builds, better chunk control and plugin compatibility, with milestones already shipping.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:56About me
- 1:32What I work on
- 2:04View
- 3:11Early Days
- 3:43Brief Timeline
- 4:42The Journey
- 5:58Burnout and Self Doubt
- 7:25Readjusting
- 8:27Finding the balance
- 8:42Life events
- 10:02Growing scope
- 11:16V2 to V3
- 11:53A realization
- 12:10Its a community
- 12:29Its about people
- 13:02Working outside of code
- 13:59Distribution of money
- 14:15Job opportunities
- 14:36Technical improvements
- 15:38Dev tools
- 15:49Volar
- 17:15V Ecosystem
- 17:51V philosoph
- 18:18V as shared infrastructure layer
- 18:53V Cross framework community
- 19:11Next for V
- 19:42OxC Environment API
- 20:13Rown
- 21:11OxC
- 21:43Why OxC
- 23:18Outro
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