As we’ve communicated over the past 6+ months, we’re investing heavily in Apollo to make Meteor better so it attracts a much larger community of professional developers to ensure it’s longevity. At the same time, we’re aligning Meteor (and Apollo) to the modern professional developer ecosystem vs. continuing to make it a closed, esoteric stack that may be easier-to-use for some but only for small slice of the app dev world. The world of developer tools and platforms has evolved since the early days of Meteor and MDG’s decisions in R&D and commercial efforts reflect where we think the future is heading. A cornerstone of the strategy of expanding to a larger market of professional developers also includes new commercial products and paid services which we’ve already begun delivering for GraphQL via Apollo while continuing work on Meteor & Galaxy too.
I recommend watching the various roadmap and strategy talks we’ve shared in recent months; we’ve been very transparent in our intentions and have generally delivered on what we’ve committed to (with a lot of help from the community!) and we’ve got a lot more coming this year!
“Meteor 1.4 and Beyond” - Matt DeBergalis
“Product Roadmap and Strategy” - Matt DeBergalis
“The Future of MDG” - Geoff Schmidt