This saddens me because I think the concept behind Upspin is powerful. Is it really that much of a resource drain to drop the key server? I imagine it could run on a $10/mo VPS.
This is the talk that introduced Upspin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg
It’s not obvious from the website, but Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand started work on Upspin after stepping back from the Go team. I suspect that many of the folks early to Go have at least occasionally checked in on Upspin.
I’m sad to see this chapter of their work shut down, but excited to see where each of them goes from here.
Sad. As a fan of Plan 9 myself it’s somewhat expected. The ideas are strong but there’s something about it all not quite catching on.
I regularly referred others to Upspin’s source tree [1] if they wondered about larger systems written in Go but weren’t too big and gross like Kubernetes.
[1]: https://github.com/upspin/upspin