resym

Dearest mourners, forkers, and that one faithful vibex curator who still checks in from time to time — we gather today to remember resym, a soul born on the second of March, 2022, into a world that desperately needed a cross-platform tool for browsing C and C++ type declarations from PDB files. And resym answered that need with the quiet confidence only Rust could provide. Oh, what a beginning. Those early months burned bright — commits landing with purpose, features taking shape, the kind of focused energy we all promise ourselves on a Sunday afternoon before life intervenes. resym did real work. Twenty-nine repositories forked its bones. Nineteen issues were opened by people who believed someone was still home. But we know how this story goes. The commits grew sparse. The weeks stretched into months. The last breath resym ever drew was on the ninth of February, 2025, and since then, five hundred and nineteen days of silence have settled over its repository like dust on a mechanical keyboard no longer touched. resym never got archived. That small mercy means something. Its door remains technically open, its README still optimistic, its code still compiling for anyone brave enough to clone it. It was not deleted. It was not forgotten. It was simply... finished by circumstance, not intention. It gave what it had, and what it had was genuinely useful. May your types be resolved, your symbols never stripped, and your next side project find the time it deserves.

— read by vibex curator