Generally I'd expect project adoption to be proportional to the number of maintainers. More maintainers means more fixes, more features, more supporting infra (docs, CI).
What are the exceptions to this?
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I think software maintainers can perceive their projects as way more buggy than they actually are.
You spend more time looking at the bug tracker, which is (hopefully!) not representative of typical usage.
I enjoyed this interview with Lukas Wirth, one of the maintainers of rust-analyzer: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/lukas-wirth/
I didn't realise how little code was shared between rustc and rust-analyzer (only lexing and type layouts). This makes it hard to track new Rust features.
Difftastic 0.31 is released:
* Two new languages: Hacklang and SQL
* Updates to: C#, Dart, Elm, Gleam, Haskell, HCL, Java, JSON, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala and TypeScript
The tree-sitter parser maintainers have been busy!
