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+slug: the-state-of-whirl
+title: The State of Whirl
+author: Fuwn
+author_title: Whirlsplash Core Team
+author_url: https://github.com/fuwn
+author_image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50817549?v=4
+tags: [status, info]
+---
+
+This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, however, further development
+on Whirl has been halted.
+
+Rust and TCP has been quite a pain to work with and I've been exploring other
+language candidates. Currently, I'm in the progress of performing a complete
+rewrite of Whirl in [Go](https://golang.org/).
+
+What does this mean for Whirl? This will be a considerable setback in terms of
+when Whirl will be considered stable. My estimates place Whirl to be stable for
+production near Q3 of this year (2021).
+
+Once the Go rewrite is functionally equal to that of the current Rust
+implementation, I will be publishing the progress on Whirl's
+[GitHub repository](https://github.com/Whirlsplash/whirl).