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What happened do dbandstra?

Open ghost opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

He apparently created multiple nice Zig things but his account got deleted.

I actually played his Wasm game, "Oxid", in my browser and had lots of fun. Sad to see that he's gone. Maybe he changed his name or something?

ghost avatar Jul 11 '22 15:07 ghost

I have no idea :( Have you asked in the IRC, Discord or some other part of the community?

catdevnull avatar Jul 13 '22 17:07 catdevnull

No, I'm not actually a part of those. Just looking at Zig on the side, just found his game pretty enjoyable back when I checked it out. I'm actually a spy from the Rust community :)

ghost avatar Jul 13 '22 18:07 ghost

OH NO!

catdevnull avatar Jul 13 '22 20:07 catdevnull

I asked to same question recently. He created very cool Zig tools/libraries but then vanished from the surface of the internet. I came across this zig-wav library which was originally written by dbandstra but now the repo is deleted. I managed to get a copy from here but the repository owner and the commits are totally different.

Screenshot 2023-03-18 at 21-12-46 Commits · marler8997_zig-wav

Initial commits goes back to 2019 but JeansSoft account was created in 2022. This shows [email protected] email might be linked to JeansSoft account somehow.

One month ago I reached out to the owner of the new zig-wav repository (marler8997) via email but couldn't get a response yet.

In the end I still don't know what happened to dbandstra. I will probably search more clues on the internet as I come across more Zig stuff from him.

orhun avatar Mar 18 '23 21:03 orhun

i asked in the zig irc room around when this issue was created and no one really had a clue. so i'm not sure.

catdevnull avatar Mar 25 '23 15:03 catdevnull