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Re:Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling ... by dewey on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:38AM (#22336235)
What makes you think it's abandoned? The author is active on Twitter, the last update for dark mode was in May 2019 and I don't see any show stopper bugs or crashes on Catalina. Small utilities like this don't need an update every month. I bought it a while ago because

1) It's very cheap and a great show case for a small niche Mac app that's both beautiful and works well

2) The two times per year I use it, it's already worth it and fun to play around with.

https://blog.helftone.com

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Re:Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling ... by inferiorhuman on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:49PM (#22338852)
What makes you think it's abandoned?

The last blog entry I saw was that it's been put into maintenance mode. If your interest has fizzled but you still want to keep the product out there, that's a great use case for open source. I'm just not that inclined to pay for something that's not being actively developed.

Obviously at some point last year it got a new feature (yay). That speaks to the app itself being feature incomplete.

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