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@kensanata@octodon.social My suspicion is that once you can self-host, it's tempting to only maintain one version.

@esvrld@octodon.social Zing! 😆 Now you mention it, I'd be really interested to see data on how many times maintenance has changed hands. Adding a maintainer is great, repeatedly changing can indicate abandonware.

@cwebber@octodon.social Thanks. I completely understand: I'm super hesitant to critique in public. I think syntax pivots are incredibly hard. When I learnt coffeescript I occasionally had to look at the compiled JS to understand the syntax. Somehow the JS felt more 'real' (and wasn't whitespace sensitive). Small syntax changes are much easier: just give the user an autofix script for their programs.