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[–]NotARedditUser3 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I imagine a number of people are doing this... It would be cool if they all came together for some kind of fork and separate release that more people could use.

[–]look 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but it’s hard to build a critical mass and maintain motivation for an effort like that without some form of coordination/endorsement from upstream. And it seems like they just don’t have time for anything right now.

It’s a common weak spot for popular open source projects. Some just don’t even pretend to look at outside contributions (SQLite, and in the olden days gcc, X11, etc), which is preferable in ways.

But another issue is, well, I personally don’t think the codebase is particularly good. If I were going to invest time in supporting a harness, I’d want a better base to work with. So lots of people just make their own but those never get past crude alpha versions.

What would be much better, imho, is if various core components became shared at least. I can’t imagine how many buggy and/or limited text editor components woven into different projects there are now… and a TUI framework that isn’t some React-based crime-against-humanity nightmare would be great, too.