Mosh original author here -- fun to see us back here yet again. Happy to answer any questions.
Not saying money would solve the challenges the maintainer faces but there might be things it eases. With a tool this popular I expect it wouldn't struggle to raise a fair bit.
There are two really annoying niggles that I have with it, but both I have solved by using a Screen session on the server:
- Scrolling turns out to be very important to most workflows. The choice to start mosh in Append mode (with chance of output corruption) rather than replace mode would be a cool thing.
- There is no easy way to pick up a session again when the client dies. I understand that this is an intended security "feature" though.
But beyond this it is a truly fabulous tool that has saved me many many hours of frustration.