And this when "Handmade Hero" was abandoned over two years ago, after not really getting anywhere over the course of 9 years.

For what it's worth it spawned a lot of quality software as a side effect. And served as an educational platform for a lot of programmers that felt that there's something wrong with modern day software and python/javascript low quality garbage they did at their day-to-day job, but couldn't quite put their finger on it.

Turns out you can both fail, and yet succeed in 10 different ways at the same time.

Haven't you kept up with the social media status, and the conferences that came out of it?