> How long Netatalk will be able to support AFP remains to be seen however, since it too is based on the protocol itself. Since Apple removed native core AFP support from macOS, even third-party AFP products may no longer work.

> AFP has served Apple well. It was simple and easy to use - and it was reliable. But since we live in a TCP/IP and Windows-based world now, it has outlived its usefulness.

What? Huh?

Since when does an open source project somehow stop working because an OS stops supporting whatever the project does?

Netatalk may very well become MORE relevant, because it may be the only way for Macs running the newest macOS to interact with older Macs.

And "TCP/IP and Windows-based"? Is this AI generated slop, or just a really bad author who doesn't understand technology? AFP has been able to use TCP/IP since at lease System 7.6.

Sigh.

It's sad, in part because it brought so many generations of Macs together. I have an iMac G3 motherboard built in to a Tonka truck that runs Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and acts as a file server and can support m68k machines running System 7.6.1, all the way through Arm Macs running Sequoia 15.5. It's a good thing Netatalk exists!