I'm really just starting with htmx but came across datastar yesterday. This is a great comparison and is confirming some of my impressions, so thanks! I'll still look a bit more but if the main thing is that it's naively adding Alpine or Stimulus then datastar is not for me.
I was going to because I like the architecture, but then I saw the fact that licensing changes are going to be frequent, and that the developers seem a bit aggressive on another thread, and I've decided to skip it.
Datastar developers are free to do what they want with their code, but as someone who releases open source software, I'm tired of projects using open source simply to create a moat or user base then switch to a proprietary model.
