Future of Chainlit as fully functional Open Source project

[andrePankraz]

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Hello,

I have more a question than a feature request (or may be a feature request for a clean roadmap).

I have seen that the Prompt Playground has now completely disappeared from the frontend and has been moved to LiteralAI. The dependency on LiteralAI Services is thus significantly greater (cross-UI links for previously integrated functions), as it is hardly possible to develop a more complex agent without this basic function.

Existing open source functions with Apache 2.0 license are removed from Chainlit and turned into LiteralAI closed source functions (and in the future paid functions, also somewhat unclear from the website).

I can certainly understand the dual principle of open source + "enterprise features" when it comes to add-on functions.

However, with the Prompt Playground, which was there from the beginning and was also easy to use with a custom data layer, I am now really skeptical about how far this is to be taken. Will more and more functions be removed from Chainlit step by step and pushed to LiteralAI?

I'm also surprised that so many heterogeneous open source contributors seem to be totally fine with it. Perhaps I have misunderstood something or there is a clearly formulated plan somewhere that I am not aware of?

Please don't write now that you wanted to make the UI clearer. This can also be achieved in a different way than completely removing existing basic features, without which the project becomes increasingly useless (without adding LiteralAI). I just want a clear statement so that we know whether we have backed the wrong horse.

Thx for the great project.