Why this project is actually abandoned?

[Azq2]

Hi everyone.

This is a very cool and unique project. In fact, it is essentially the only way to use serialport in NodeJS.

Unfortunately, at the moment the project appears to be abandoned:

• Critical issues in bindings-cpp have remained unfixed for years, even when there is a one-line PR available. Example: https://github.com/serialport/bindings-cpp/pulls
• Even simple issues, such as typing problems, have been ignored for more than three years. Example: https://github.com/serialport/bindings-interface/pulls

Because of this, end users are forced to:

• Create horrible workarounds, for example:

  • https://github.com/Azq2/node-serialport-bindings-webserial/blob/master/src/serialport-bindings-interface.d.ts

• Or even fork an entire package just to include critical fixes, for example:

  • https://github.com/siemens-mobile-hacks/node-serialport-bindings-cpp/tree/fork
  • https://github.com/Jason2866/bindings-cpp

In practice, this means that a broken and abandoned serialport package is a blow to the entire NodeJS ecosystem. It rules out using JavaScript for embedded or IoT development.

That this is a kind of "left-pad" situation in the part of the JavaScript ecosystem that intersects with hardware.

I believe the project should reconsider its plans for the future and possibly bring in new maintainers to continue active development.