“Cypress.io is Dying” Revisited, One Year Later

More signs over the last year indicating that my prediction is correct.

One year ago (2023–08–01), I published “Cypress.io is Dying” on Medium and “A Follow-up” three months later.

Disclaimer: The growth of Playwright over Cypress has nothing to do with my article. To begin with, I have little involvement with any of those two; I’m simply sharing my opinions, drawing from 18+ years hands-on experience on E2E test automation, with my readers, who are limited to Medium members and Substack paid subscribers.

I like to use facts to support my statement. “Cypress.io is Dying” has only about 20K reads (~2K member reads, accessing the full content), which is tiny. In other words, my influence is negligible.

Some readers might say, “Zhimin, Cypress.io hasn’t gone bankrupt yet”. True, but “dying” can be a prolonged process. We’ve all known someone who has been “dying” for years.

In this article, I will recap the events related to Cypress over the past year. Like the original article, I will present the facts, you make your own judgement.

Table of Contents:
· 1. The Playwright download count exceeded Cypress
· 2. No News on Cypress’ Press & Media for about a year
· 3. Still No Series C Funding, after…