What is the state of the project ?

Hi !

I'm confuse about the state of the project

I saw the video of Raph Levien at Recurse Center , I though the project was awesome. Then I found Raph's the postmortem article announcing the end of the project. And now I see that people still contribute to the GitHub repo.

As a newbie, I couldn't understand Raph article. I think it was addressing xi's community and contributors.

Did the project stop because it reached a dead end or did it stop because it didn't reach some expectation ? Do xi still have a future ? If yes what would it be ? Is xi current state a viable backend option to build a text editor or is this just an experiment ?

Thanks