Pick two:
1. Valuable product maintained by professionals 2. Is free 3. Will be around for a long time
Yes, I know there are exceptions.
Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
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Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#12Slava @ RethinkDB here. I am not able to get into details yet, but the short version is that the commercial entity behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We're working on continuity for the open-source project. Full announcement (and details) coming in a day or two.
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#13Slava @ RethinkDB here. I am not able to get into details yet, but the short version is that the commercial entity behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We're working on continuity for the open-source project. Full announcement (and details) coming in a day or two.
Really liked the work done in RethinkDB. Hope it stays!
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#14"Slava @ Rethink here. Unfortunately I cannot comment yet (I really wish I could), but your intuition is right. We're working hard to be able to give a full account ASAP (matter of days). Please stay tuned."
https://discuss.horizon.io/t/are-rethink-and-horizon-dead-ab...
That doesn't sound promising :/
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#15Shit! We just started using RethinkDB. This is pretty scary.
We made the choice to use RethinkDB with my team exactly 1 hour ago, crazy.
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#16"Slava @ Rethink here. Unfortunately I cannot comment yet (I really wish I could), but your intuition is right. We're working hard to be able to give a full account ASAP (matter of days). Please stay tuned." https://discuss.horizon.io/t/are-rethink-and-horizon-dead-ab... That doesn't sound promising :/
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Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#17Really why popular opensource from companies controlled by that company is a bad idea if noone is really interested in carrying it forward.
How many frameworks/languages/tools would survive if their parent company disappeared?
I know IO.js was successful when diverging from nodejs (even if they ended up merging again).
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#18Slava @ RethinkDB here. I am not able to get into details yet, but the short version is that the commercial entity behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We're working on continuity for the open-source project. Full announcement (and details) coming in a day or two.
Dammit -- so sorry to hear that. :( As you know, I am a huge fan of RethinkDB, and I certainly know the challenges of building an open source based business. You guys succeeded wildly at building excellent software that will endure -- and I for one will be sporting one of my beloved RethinkDB shirts tomorrow...
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#19Slava @ RethinkDB here. I am not able to get into details yet, but the short version is that the commercial entity behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We're working on continuity for the open-source project. Full announcement (and details) coming in a day or two.
Slava, Michael and the RethinkDB team,
Wow... This comes as a complete stunner. Startups are f'ing hard. You had such a great team and there were no obvious signs or slowing of product development. Literally just came out of nowhere. Anyway, wish you all the best and hopefully someday we can learn all the details of what all went so wrong. The quality and beauty (great design) of RethinkDB is something I will continue to admire.
I'm working on my 3rd startup and heavy into development using Node.js + RethinkDB + Thinky (ORM)[1]. It is a bit relieving to hear that RethinkDB will continue to exist as an open source project.
Re: Are RethinkDB and Horizon abandoned?
#20I had just been evaluating Horizon for a new project using React. It looked very promising but we decided to use Firebase instead, in spite of Firebase being closed source and subject to vendor lock in. We simply couldn't justify forgoing the built in deployment and additional features of Firebase when we are on such a tight time and money budget.
I hope there is a good outcome for Horizon and RethinkDB, they both seemed excellent technologies and it'd be sad to see them languish.