@jalefkowit 80 years old, still maintains PCRE2! What a legend!!
@kishcom @jalefkowit He is a legend *and* this is an example of the continuing failure of open source software to sustain itself. Why is an 80-year-old man the only person supporting a package as widely used as PCRE? Because the open source "community" is 90% parasites and 9% divas who would rather reinvent the wheel than maintain an existing project.
This is not a feel-good story, this is a symptom of the broader dysfunctions of the OSS paradigm.
@pooserville @jalefkowit Agreed, but getting the story out is important. I doubt I was alone in that my first thought upon reading was: "Do I want to look into what it would take to run the PCRE2 project"?