In Q1 2026, we tested 12 production-grade Next.js 15 and tRPC deployments under 15,000 requests per second of mixed CRUD workloads. The performance gap between the two was 42% in p99 latency for complex nested queries – but the winner depends entirely on your team’s type safety requirements and deployment model. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ vercel/next.js — 139,259 stars, 30,996 forks 📦 next — 151,184,760 downloads last month ⭐ trpc/trpc — 40,137 stars, 1,598 forks 📦 @trpc/server — 12,631,061 downloads last month Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web (48 points) A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury (296 points) This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 (387 points) Dav2d (516 points) Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (347 points) Key Insights tRPC v11.0.0-beta.4 reduces serialization overhead by 37% compared to Next.js 15 Server Actions when handling 1MB+ payloads, benchmarked…