Comment by hyperpape

The maintainers are probably all making personally reasonable choices that we should support.

But it’s still sad that there’s probably no world where someone will still focus on jemalloc with professional support from their employer. It means that an important piece of technology will not continue improving.

Forking is possible, but it doesn’t look like the kind of project that many people could fork and improve, it requires a lot of focus by people with specific domain knowledge.