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Re:Inviting another GitHub user to be your successor by jeppesen-io on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:14PM (#29819297)
> Well this prevents my plan of "I'm never gonna die because I have to maintain this OSS project".

You joke, but that's what the VIM creator/maintainer said in response to the question of the continued future of VIM

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Re:Inviting another GitHub user to be your successor by patrickthebold on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:20AM (#29820801)
Related: When Knuth dies, TeX will be done. The version will be pi* and all bugs will be features.

* Currently the version approaches pi on new releases. https://texfaq.org/FAQ-TeXfuture

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