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I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here

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As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):

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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

You see if it was closed sourced it would be the end, but because its open and is actually really useful, it'll be picked up by a new team

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, haskell is still open

https://github.com/ghc/ghc

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What closed source projects were ruined by politics like this?

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 0 points 6 months ago

This was 4 days ago, I didn't have to look very far:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/27/google-project-nimbus-israel

Firing talent is a great way to bork a project.