Is DevToys dead?

[cloudfy]

Is DevToys dead? 2.08.Preview is the latest, nothing is being released, and issues are piling up?

[cloudfy]

[slasho]

I think so... no release from 2023

[veler]

DevToys isn't dead — I just got distracted by other projects, especially WindowSill, which has been taking most of my focus lately. That said, the current state of DevToys is admittedly frustrating. There are two major bugs that have been lingering DevToys 2.0 Preview:

• A blank window issue on Linux and macOS.
• Monaco's Diff View failing to work properly most of the time.

I've spent quite a bit of time investigating these, but I haven't found the root cause yet. The blank window bug in particular is tricky since I can't reproduce it myself.

Part of me regrets making DevToys 2.0 web-based instead of native — though at the time it was sort of necessary (I explained the reasoning in this blog post). Another part of me is tempted to reboot the project entirely. Instead of pushing DevToys 2.0 to a stable release, I might eventually reboot it as DevToys 3.0, going back to native apps at least on Mac and Windows. The idea would be to keep the public API intact so there are no breaking changes for the 40+ extensions that already exist.

That said, this isn't something I'll do immediately. Right now, my energy is on WindowSill. DevToys remains open source, and contributions are always welcome. If anyone is willing to dig into these bugs, please do — it would help a lot.

[badcel]

Do you think the Linux issues are due to the implementation of the webview using webkitgtk as a backend?

I wonder because there are several GirCore based implementations around but I'm not sure if there is one aimed to be used broadly: GirCore.WebKit-6.0 dependants.

At least you could check the differences perhaps your problems are already fixed elsewhere.