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It's weird under "Get Started" they have links to 40 different languages. You can only get started with 15 of the 40 languages listed, the other 25 are skeleton repos asking for people to start the repo to indicate interest.

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It’s kinda clever. The people most likely to look at this project are also likely ideal candidates for implementing the library in a new language (Developer, FOSS enthusiast, interested in the project, need the library in a language they’re familiar with that isn’t implemented yet).

Also, the language pills differentiate between those that have been implemented (color logo, dark text, bold) and those that aren’t (grayscale).

Good points. Those pages also contain links to old implementations (Hashids), because a lot of projects still use those and want to be able to find them.

Also can help track which languages people click on, probably a good proxy of where there would be the need to develop a lib

The approach definitely works. Some time ago I saw .NET listed but discovered it wasn't complete. I was eager to replace an existing Hashids implementation so I made some comments, shared a starter-snippet, and then someone was excited enough to complete in just a few days. It was great to see how quick the community stepped in. Maybe there was a bit of Cunningham's Law in effect with my contribution, ha.

https://github.com/sqids/sqids-dotnet/issues/2#issuecomment-...

Maybe a slam dunk first FOSS contribution?

This seems like a perfect use case for an LLM :)

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