I’ve run into this with a niche but fairly popular open source program. It had been used by big tech cos for years, while the maintainers moved on one by one un

I’ve run into this with a niche but fairly popular open source program. It had been used by big tech cos for years, while the maintainers moved on one by one until the last guy who seems to have thrown in the towel in 2020. I considered picking it up, but I’d have to make some hard decisions about the code base that wouldn’t make everyone happy, and I just don’t have the context to do that. Another issue is the lack of testing infrastructure. So for everyone who still cares, the path of least resistance is to maintain their own fork or do a rewrite in a different language.