Very little progress made this year after high profile departures (Hector Martin, project lead, Asahi Lina and Alyssa Rosenzweig - GPU gurus). Alyssa's departure isn't reflected on Asahi's website yet, but it is in her blog. I believe she also left Valve, which I think was sponsoring some aspects of the Asahi project. So when people say "Asahi hasn't seen any setbacks" be sure to ask them who has stepped in to make up for these losses in both talent and sponsorship.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-n.html

Has Hector left though?

https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/20251215-macsmc-subdevs-v6-4-0...

Marcan (Hector Martin) resigned from Asahi Linux early this year [0].

Asahi Lina, who also did tons of work on the Asahi Linux GPU development, also quit as she doesn't feel safe doing Linux GPU work anymore [1].

[0] https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

[1] https://asahilina.net/luna-abuse/

marcan and asahi lina is the same person

GP's LKML link is very recent unlike your two links, implying something could've changed.

I have no insight into the Asahi project, but the LKML link goes to an email from James Calligeros containing code written by Hector Martin and Sven Peter. The code may have been written a long time ago.

Someone posting Hectors code or a quote does not mean he didn't leave. I'm really not sure how that could leave that impression.

Because key developers have left the project, and developers who are capable of such work are few and far between.

>are few and far between

They are more common than you would think. There just is not many willing to work on a shoe string salary.

> There just is not many willing to work on a shoe string salary.

You explained it well by yourself.

It's really hard to do and nobody is paying for it?