Vue creator Evan You raises $4.6 million on new project

The big news that was hinted at online last week by X Evan You

Evan created a company Voidzero Incwhich will do”an open-source, high-performance, and unified development toolchain for the JavaScript ecosystem” (about the same as now bun or deno only without js engine), and in the first round raised $4.6 million for it (that is, sold investors 10-20 percent of its shares for this amount)

This is very good news. Vue It has long outgrown the level of amateur open source, and it needs backup in the form of a business. Because looking at Anthony Fu’s depressing coming outs, or the author’s whining Volar Johnson pro mucho trabajo poco dineroor abandoned for the same reason Vapor not fun at all.

As a result, Evan obtained the rights to Oxc And Rolldown (most productive JS tools for Rust), which he has been actively involved in recently, for the created company VoidZero Inc and instantly passed the seed round. Among the main investors – Accel And Amplify. Interestingly, a month ago Accel invested $54 in Laravel

Vue the ecosystem is not affected at all. Developers working on Vue or Vitemost likely they will be employees of this new company and will receive a salary there for their work – this is called a backup business.

Evan wrote in detail about the reasons and goals of everything fast.

By the way, take a close look at the new company’s website – voidzero.dev. This is an example of what can VitePress.

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