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Communities aren't always in competition with one another.

Yes they are. If opensource product A does not have better features than competing opensource product B, uses move to the better product A and pretty soon, almost nobody will use product B. Take BSD vs Linux for example. We get "we've migrated to BSD" or "we've migrated to Linux" posts all the time and arguments for one or the other. Is there a winner and loser? Yes. Larger communities, more developers, more corporate sponsors, more contributions, etc. Certainly looks like competition to me.

That’s because you’ve been brainwashed by capitalism. The alternative getting less attention might have fewer resources, but there is nothing to “win” here.

Getting “funded” is to get a job maintaining the project. Great! This happens to incredibly few, high-profile projects. Those people wouldn’t be working on the alternative if they didn’t get paid to work on the one they care about.

>but there is nothing to “win” here.

In the context of Deno here, it obviously implies market share.

There's no "market" to have a "share" of.

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