`tmux` is worse is better

• kitty

  295 22,501 9.9 Python

  Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

It's not like Goyal doesn't accept any patches [1].

I don't use kitty myself, but many people who do seem to love it. I've come around to feel that this is truly a maintainer's judgment call. After all, they are almost always stuck maintaining the code no matter who wrote it initially, and they know better than anyone else what code they're personally comfortable maintaining.

More generally, if you like a piece of software enough, you're implicitly trusting the maintainers' judgment. You're certainly not reviewing every single line of code they write to see if you agree with it.

The miserable survival rate of hostile forks also demonstrates that even if people care enough to fork over one issue, they rarely care enough to maintain the overall project long-term, despite implicitly asking the original maintainers to do the exact same thing.

[1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• .tmux

  22 21,364 7.3 Shell

  🇫🇷 Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with ❤️

repo: https://github.com/gpakosz/.tmux.git

• list

  4 1,017 5.7

  A list of tmux plugins. (by tmux-plugins)

  

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/list

As a neovim user I can also very much recommend this vim plugin to seamlessly navigate between tmux panes and neovim windows:

• vim-tmux-navigator

  43 5,032 4.7 Vim Script

  Seamless navigation between tmux panes and vim splits

• retty

  1 4 - C

  Terminal attaching without screen (by lkundrak)

there are hacky ways to do it though:

http://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

http://github.com/jerome-pouiller/reredirect

https://github.com/lkundrak/retty/

• libsixel

  2 108 0.0 C

  A C language SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation, forked from saitoha/libsixel after @saitoha vanished. Receives security patches, accepts PR's filed preferably here but also at saitoha/libsixel. (by libsixel)

  

They did take over maintenance but abandoned it shortly after: https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel/

You can add this to the enormous pile of open source forks that didn't survive long enough to have any real value to the industry.

I respect that Goyal has been bitten by this dynamic before and said this back in April 2020:

> That said, I wont refuse a patch to implement it on top of the existing graphics support, provided I was reasonabl confident the person implementing it would stick around to maintain it as well.

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