But muh shantytown. It takes so much time and effort to mantain ☹️
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There's also just the whole fallacy of "ossified software", where you can program something and just leave it to rot.
That's a complete non-starter on Nostr, as the protocol is constantly changing, expanding, being refactored, etc. You have to update at least a couple of times, per year, or it'll eventually break or become obsolete.
There's no such thing as Nostr One Hit Wonder.
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What do you propose the devs do though? Take the repo down? I've seen plenty of others who enjoy a deprecated software so they fork it an maintain it.
A good example. Look a the official Argon2 reference implementation. Yeah the same Argon2 that powers a large number if not the majority of password hashing all over the place. It hasn't been maintained in 4 years. No one has touched in in C or libraries that port it. There are some alternatives but none that match the reference in terms of completeness and performance. I assume other languages have attempted to maintain it, but there are 0. I mean literally 0 (I checked last week) active forks of the official Argon2 library.