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Re:BRL-CAD by rwmj on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:03AM (#35451303)
Open source software doesn't need to die, as long as there's someone to maintain it. This project looks pretty active with regular commits:

https://github.com/BRL-CAD/brlcad/commits/main

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Re:BRL-CAD by brlcad on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:59PM (#35463954)
Well said!

Like many open source communities, pandemic had a pretty significant impact, but development and releases are quite active.

New release coming out in a few weeks introduces conversion support for 150 new geometry and terrain file formats. This summer, Physically-based Rendering support is coming to open source CAD for the first time ever. All the while, devs are working on GUI infrastructure, mentoring GSoC, doing academic research, interacting with academia, and doing what they can to help foster an open source CAx community.

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