Your answer is within the comment you wrote. AI is maintaining tsrs whereas humans are maintaining tsgo.

Your question boils down to "why would humans maintain something?" which could have a variety of answers depending on context.

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No, the question is now: "How much human mental momentum, ego, and investment is there in and behind any particular project or its forks?"

I for one would be demotivated. Why maintain an official compiler that's not even half as fast as the vibe-coded one?

"Just" publish the language specs and be done.

	▲	Rapzid 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		These ports are borrowing large parts of the architecture, algorithms, and data structures from the official implementation. I don't think a spec would facilitate them at such a low effort level and cost.
	▲	greenavocado 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> Why maintain an official compiler that's not even half as fast as the vibe-coded one? Because at the end of the day, someone has to actually care and put in effort, even if the thing is machine generated, because it can go off the rails.
	▲	lifeisloving 32 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Because its impossible to stay motivated working on non trivial project when AI is running the show. Its the last thing Id want to do, its soul sucking and the code is terrible. Remember these guys have poured years of actual work, not slop into tsgo. You sloppers wouldnt understand that.