I commend Waldemar and Thomas for announcing their decision so that someone else can take the reigns, rather that letting things die slowly and quietly.
On the other hand, I can't help but think that "development halted" and "no longer maintained"[1] headlines do the Django community a disservice, as evidenced by comments here[2] asking if Django is dead.
Django is alive, active, and serving many of us very well, thank you. IMHO the reason you don't hear much about it compared to the latest hot shit framework is because it usually "just works", leaving us more time to deal with more important things, like actual business problems.
As horrible as PHP is, it is really easy to sit down with PHP and a tutorial or a book and start banging out code that gives you instant results...
You could say the same thing about ASP, or even ColdFusion.
I'd argue that those instant results had more to do with the higher availability of PHP on cheap web hosts, than the accessibility of the language itself.
When will people realize that the main reason PHP was/is so successful has nothing to do with the language? PHP got huge because it's free and super easy to deploy on commodity-level hosting. Ubiquity breeds popularity.
Basing a reboot on the JVM makes little sense in this context.
That said, you lost me at "less ';' like in javascript".
Funny article, but it misses the fact that GitHub's pricing is less about code separation, and more about access management.
There's nothing stopping a customer from cramming several projects into a single Git repository. You could theoretically take advantage of GitHub's "unlimited" storage for cheap this way. The problem is, you need separate repositories if you want to manage access for different collaborators.
Folders aren't expensive, but access management can be. Github understands this, which is why their Business plans, which are differentiated by having finer-grained access control features, are more expensive.
I switched to yafc from lftp years ago and never looked back, so I can't really compare it to newer versions of lftp. IIRC the biggest wins at the time were context-sensitive tab completion, including support for remote paths, and automatic bookmarking with saved passwords (optional, of course). FTP sucks, yafc makes it tolerable.
clex's approach to file management is by complementing the command line; you can generally use it as a pure CLI and it stays out of your way unless until you need to find or select a path. Every action you perform remains on the command line, clex merely makes it easier to quickly build commands. Compared to clex, Midnight Commander (like Norton Commander before it) feels like an attempt at a graphical file manager for the terminal, where the command line is almost an afterthought.
yafc: The best command-line FTP client that nobody's ever heard of. Local caching, tab completion, bookmarking, SFTP, and other generally awesome stuff.
clex: Full-screen file manager for command-line junkies. Configurable directory display, smart name completion, enhances the command line without seeking to replace it.
Kudos on providing a price comparison page, but it's somewhat misleading that you're including Authorize.Net set up fees in the "Per Month Costs". Isn't that more reflective of first month costs?
NFSN is attractive in principle, but their management UI is awful. I had a few low-traffic domains registered and hosted there and ended up transferring them elsewhere out of sheer frustration.
I've been a SizeUp user for about 8 months, and use it every day. The Cinch/SizeUp developer has been responsive and open to user feedback and suggestions. Highly recommended.
Would be nice if there it was bundled with sample patched fonts, so those wanting to try it could see if it's worth the trouble to patch a font.