"A large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles. We are actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again. We apologize to those who were impacted."
Author here! When CoffeeScript 2 got released about 6 years ago, me and a few others went all into it, because huge effort went into supporting ES6 features in the compiler.
Still, TypeScript appeared 1 year after and took over everything.
I had to use both heavily, and I am 3x slower and more verbose in TS than CS. But hobby dev is not what guides adoption.
It's what gets used inside companies that decides this, and companies prefer slow but stricter languages, that help devs collaborate.
Not languages that allow super fast development but results into hard to revisit code.
I think your perception is incorrect in both counts.
They went bankrupt and saved the app by selling it to Warner and selling IP to Live Nation.
And it doesn't seem like he was aiming for a heartwarming tale, the last message says "we gave it our best shot" and he is disappointed that there is no big, healthy competition.
> Songkick shut down in October 2017 after earlier declaring bankruptcy. In January 2018, Live Nation reached a $110 million settlement with Songkick to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the startup had filed under which Live Nation agreed to acquire Songkick’s technology assets and patents.
