The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

**The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source**

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer. This issue is the entire The Pulse issue from the past week, which paying subscribers received seven days ago. This piece generated quite a few comments across subscribers, and so I'm sharing it more broadly, especially as it raises questions on what is defensible and what is not with open source.If you’ve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here to get issues like this in your inbox.Today’s issue of The Pulse focuses on a single event because it’s a significant one with major potential ripple effects. On Tuesday, Cloudflare shocked the dev world by announcing that they have rewritten Next.js in just one week, with a single developer who used only $1,100 in tokens:Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht on XThere are several layers to dig into here:The Next.js ecosystem: a recap. Close to half of React devs use Next.js, and the best place to deploy Next.js is on Vercel – partly thanks to its proprietary build output.What Cloudflare did with Next.js...

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