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		giancarlostoro on May 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language I would like to remind everyone of the time where NodeJS was forked into a more bleeding edge version of Node, and eventually down the line, all the changes were pulled into NodeJS and things were consolidated. Edit: It was iojs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8694953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669557

ChickeNES on May 30, 2023 [–]

Or much longer ago, egcs being forked from gcc and later being subsumed back into the original project by the FSF

jhbadger on May 30, 2023 | [–]

Or XEmacs forking off from Emacs in 1993. Although that didn't so much get subsumed but basically died a decade or so ago when most of the features XEmacs provided had been added to normal Emacs.

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