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January 26th 2009 at 9:27 am in Hi there people!
Interesting times ahead for my pet project NG-BASIC!
After long deliberation I have decided to transfer the ownership; transfer the ownership to a new owner that is going to breathe fresh life into the project.
It shall be actively developed on — something which I can’t do anymore as I seem to be wasting more and more spare time on work. 
I must say it feels weird to let go of it… I guess it’s similar to what an artist feels when he sells a painting (well I like to think so anyway).
When I initially wrote it I never expected anyone to be interested at all. Perhaps one or two like-minded people — I did not expect more for a “toy” programming language.
The emails I got and the amount of downloads over the years show differently: there’s still quite an interest in BASIC, be it because of the geekiness of it running in a browser; to quickly get some calculations done; to explain somebody the basics of a programming concept; or — for people born in the 70s and 80s — just out of pure nostalgia.
So, that’s all very cool and I’m glad that people enjoyed it and hope they will do so in the future.
I believe it will be in good hands at its new home. In a different context (read: not on my personal weblog with, for perhaps some people some non-subtle opinions) it can even reach a broader audience…
It will surely be interesting to see how it’ll develop, literally. 
Farewell — may it be in for a nice ride!
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