I am in disbelief that you think Howard might need to grow a clue, or that his projects might be at risk of dying, where of any of the code bases I downstream for MacPorts, Howard's (e.g. https://ports.macports.org/port/lmdb/details/) have by far more users, like by a factor of almost 8X the next highest ranked MacPort for which I am a maintainer (e.g. https://ports.macports.org/port/openssh/details/).

Maybe, you don't understand how projects actually thrive? It sure as heck isn't with navel gazing about old farts not understanding new generations.

Admittedly, I am still upset that MacPorts recently lost kencu (Ken Cunningham who was doing work maintaining various gcc versions among other things for OS X Tiger and such) because some disrespectful jerk (who had maybe two commits, in something related to NodeJS/NPM I guess?) was insanely rude to him on a public mailing list. I think the rude person got banned, but the damage had been done.

We are blessed to stand on the shoulders of those who did the hard work that makes our lives easier.

More young upstarts would be wise to not it.sh on such shoulders.

Or as Ice Cube phrased it: "Pump your brakes, respect your elders." (from "Can You Dig It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRoTyZU4RU)

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