[lewisjoe]

This is amusing as well as slightly scary. Prosemirror over the years has become the backbone of editors on the web. ChatGPT uses it. Gemini uses it. Linked chat and feed composers are Prosemirror powered. Literally every serious product uses Prosemirror for composing text on the web.

There is an entire YC company built on top of Prosemirror (Tiptap).

The thought that Prosemirror is no more in active development is scary.

[john_strinlai]

>The thought that Prosemirror is no more in active development is scary.

From their blog: "I'm still proud of ProseMirror, and ProseMirror isn't going anywhere—it will continue to be maintained."

[marijn]

> The thought that Prosemirror is no more in active development is scary.

Which is a thing that I never said. In fact I went out of my way in all the announcements to stress that ProseMirror maintenance is continuing as it has been.

[curtisblaine]

The only scary thought is that all these important operations don't have a plan B if prosemirror, a software they don't write, don't own and presumably don't pay, goes away.

[marijn]

Many of them do pay.

Also MIT-licensed software doesn't 'go away' all that easily. If a piano fell on my head tomorrow, interested parties would probably manage to continue development in a fork.

[r0b05]

You are correct, but please watch out for falling pianos because we appreciate your work.

[Imustaskforhelp]

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/

but as @john_strinlai as I have said it doesn't seem like Prosemirror is going unmaintained. It will continue to be maintained

but I think its worth thinking about the structure of the whole thing being so similar to the xkcd which is what might be the scary part of it.