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Unfortunately, the founder of ZeroMQ, Pieter Hintjens passed away (due to cancer) [1]. He was a regular on HN [2]. ZeroMQ still works great and the open sourc
by sixdimensional 9y ago
Unfortunately, the founder of ZeroMQ, Pieter Hintjens passed away (due to cancer) [1]. He was a regular on HN [2].
ZeroMQ still works great and the open source community is still maintaining it on GitHub [3]. I just think people are also looking at other technologies. A lot of interest popped up in things like Apache Kafka and Samsa. I still think ZeroMQ holds a unique place due to its lightweight and simple nature.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11547212
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PieterH https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PieterH
[3] https://github.com/zeromq https://github.com/zeromq
- agnivade 9y agoYes, I am aware that Peter had passed away. I thought that it was implied that the project is not maintained anymore, which is not true.
- shoover 9y agoI have been curious how the community would hold up after Pieter's death. This project is a unique case because of how much work went into building community and welcoming contributions. That said, the world is a different place than in zeromq's heyday. Other commenters refer to Martin leaving the project, C++ regret, and a poor fit with node.js. Maybe in the face of all those changes zeromq's mature community is primarily why it lives as a project.