--- title: Cloudflare aqui-hires VoidZero: Did a piece of the open... description: Cloudflare has acqui-hired VoidZero, bringing Evan You and the entire team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc under its roof. Cloudflare and VoidZero's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-aqui-hires-voidzero-did-a-piece-of-the-open-web-just-stabilize-or-become-more-brittle--owxebcxob twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cloudflare aqui-hires VoidZero: Did a piece of the open web just stabilize, or become more brittle? | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare has acqui-hired VoidZero, bringing Evan You and the entire team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc under its roof. Cloudflare and VoidZero's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-aqui-hires-voidzero-did-a-piece-of-the-open-web-just-stabilize-or-become-more-brittle--owxebcxob og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OWxEbcxOB.png og:image:alt: Cloudflare aqui-hires VoidZero: Did a piece of the open web just stabilize, or become more brittle? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cloudflare aqui-hires VoidZero: Did a piece of the open web just stabilize, or become more brittle? **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 8 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare has acqui-hired VoidZero, bringing Evan You and the entire team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc under its roof. Cloudflare and VoidZero's founder insist all tools will remain open-source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven, pointing to the Astro acquisition as a precedent. Developer reaction is sharply divided: some trust Cloudflare's track record and see the move as stabilizing funding for critical web tooling, while others cite the BastionZero shutdown as evidence that corporate promises erode over time. Cloudflare is backing its pledge with a $1 million Vite ecosystem fund administered by the Vite core team. The acquisition fits a broader pattern of JavaScript tooling consolidation, alongside Anthropic/Bun, GitHub/npm, Netlify/Gatsby, and Vercel/Turborepo. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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