At least they started with the most intense proprietary one I guess. I totally understand that this is taking immense manpower to keep going, but it's still sad to see one go.

Has the funding situation of matrix not improved with EU countries make use of it due to sovereignty issues? If you have to stop development of a bridge to one of the biggest proprietary chat systems out there, it doesn't speak well of your financial situation.

In my dumb naive optimistic brain bridges are the perfect kind of software to be automatically developed, revised, tested, and updated by AI agents.

Two sets of rules with written documentation (API), translate request from one to the other, validate message sent and message received, if not revise and test again.

Realistically, I know this would likely hit a brick wall quickly, but it sure seems like if AI driven software development is getting actually practical this type of thing should be on the easier end of the spectrum of possibilities.