NetNewsWire developer Brent Simmons shares a one-year retirement retrospective on the open source RSS reader's progress. Over 2,188 commits, the team modernized the codebase by adopting Swift structured concurrency and async/await, porting parsers from Objective-C to Swift, adopting Liquid Glass UI, reducing battery and memory usage, fixing crashes, optimizing iCloud syncing, and adding diagnostics tools for users. The foundational work is nearly complete, paving the way for new features. The team also switched from Slack to a Discourse forum for community support.
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