The future of Sparkle

[TheFruxz]

Hello 👋,

If you take a look at the latest activity of sparkle, you may wonder if the repository is dead or not.
Currently, I have plenty of things to do at other locations and sparkle was not regularly maintained, but
I plan to change that in the near future.

The first thing is to release the next version of Sparkle, which provides some changes and updates so that you can work with the newest versions of the dependencies, without any problems.

The plan after that is, to rework huge chunks of sparkle, to make it lightweight again, less dependent on itself and provide more modern features, that allow you, to be more free about the use of sparkle.

Sparkle is not dead, and it will be back again in the near future.

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Fruxz

[tygastoFX]

Hey Fruxz,

Sparkle would be a great addition for my development, however, I am curious if you have any plans to add multi-platform support in the future?

I have come across some other frameworks [HERE] [HERE] and [HERE] but If spark has a future of cross platform compatibility I would begin implementing it just based off documentation alone! If you are interested in chatting about this add my discord mythgg

[TheFruxz]

Hey @tygastoFX,

Making Sparkle multi-platform is something, that I have in mind for quite a while.
But currently my main goal is bringing Sparkle to the first "complete" version, which is focused on a Paper-only release.
It is still a thing I want to work toward, but it is currently not in my release roadmap and I have no ETA for that.

I occasionally take some parts of the code, that would be perfect for multiple use cases (not only on paper servers), and make them a dedicated library. For example, Ascend, Stacked and BrigadiKt are all libraries, which are results of code separation of my main-framework idea.

Thanks for your interest,
~ Fruxz

[TheFruxz]

After going through the idea again, I have come to the conclusion, considering the current rewrite, to move multi-platform to the top of the list and make it one of the priorities. So one thing is certain: coming soon