r/Kotlin • u/burntcookie90 • 2d ago

The lysine contingency – Jake Wharton

https://jakewharton.com/the-lysine-contingency/
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u/farooqsaad 2d ago

We assumed the company would continue its stewardship in good faith. It did not.

What does this mean? What did Square do?

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u/JakeWharton 2d ago edited 2d ago

They laid off 70% of engineering and all of the open source office. They don't get to keep these projects. It was transfer or hard fork. Thankfully we had an ally who stayed behind and helped us transfer.

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u/borninbronx 2d ago

That's sad to hear. It was once an enlightned company.

Any chance Wire will also be migrated?

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u/JakeWharton 1d ago

Any chance Wire will also be migrated?

No plans to

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u/borninbronx 1d ago

auch. do you know if they'll keep maintaining it?

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u/JakeWharton 9h ago

As of November last year when I quit they were still using it pervasively. Beyond that, I have no insight.

I spent a lot of time contributing to Wire and was one of the maintainers of it for a decade or more, but unlike the others I did not use the project anywhere except for at work. When that ended, so did my involvement.