The challenges of being a FOSS maintainer: https://feaneron.com/2019/03/28/on-being-a-free-software-maintainer/
I can relate. Working on projects with a small userbase that target other devs definitely helps. I'd be reluctant to maintain a popular consumer app.
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For hobby projects, I really like software where I can do small features or tweaks. Sometimes I don't have time for anything more substantial.
Website projects are great for this. Are there other areas?
WebAssembly seems like a totally reasonable bytecode format, but I've not had many opportunities to use it so far.
Has wasm found its 'killer app' yet?
What are the most popular languages that have used an AST walker for their implementation?
I know Ruby used to do this, but there must be others.
(I'm interested in the lowest PL speed that users will tolerate if you have awesome features.)