[Panino]

> It's always the most insufferable people that make the biggest hullabaloo about a project they have nothing to do with and have never contributed to.

Agreed, and similarly, as a hobbyist programmer who loves Rust and Go, I've always felt that the people who command others to "rewrite it in xyz" are not themselves developers, they're "ideas people." There's a mass of these people whose main interactions with the world are through the dramatic forcing of their correct opinions.

> I run a smallish project with ~1k stars and I've stopped maintaining it last year because people feel like they're absolutely owed features or bug-fixes or whatever.

That's a bummer and it's something I'm fearful of. I post some code on my website, not on a github type site, and don't interact with people about it. It's nice and plenty of people do it. Is that something you'd consider?