Sad, sad news. It's the only Debian based distro that I've found to be nearly perfect out of the box for my workflow. I had a feeling this was coming for a while (as most #! users probably did), and I've mulled over trying to emulate its interface and approach using another major distro (Slackware) as the base. But the two, Debian and Slackware, are just so different that it's beyond my ability to commit the amount of time needed to do it properly.

Given the impending systemd switch in Debian, I probably would have had to give up using #! going forward anyway. Still, it kills me to see it possibly disappearing one day soon. I hope Corenominal can pass the torch to the community in a way that allows it to live on in some form.