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"Long abandoned" is a fair characterization of Sandstorm.

There is a loyal community of enthusiasts trying to keep it alive, but realistically not a lot of progress has been made. (Though, AI has helped them make more progress lately.)

But the original creator of Sandstorm (me) did indeed abandon it long ago (sorry).

More here: https://sandstorm.io/news/2024-01-14-move-to-sandstorm-org

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There is no need to apologize for building a fantastic tool that was ahead of its time.

But "abandoned" in this contexts makes it sound like it's dead. Even if it's factually correct that the original (very busy) author stepped away and it is literally/factually true that you "abandoned it", it is also fairly misleading.

I disfavor maligning open source projects based on a misleading framing.

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