Comment by jonchang
3 hours ago
The author of nethack4 (Alex Smith) subsequently joined the original nethack (nethack 3.x) dev team: https://nethack.org/common/news.html#newmembers
3 hours ago
The author of nethack4 (Alex Smith) subsequently joined the original nethack (nethack 3.x) dev team: https://nethack.org/common/news.html#newmembers
I hope one day the DevTeam releases a NetHack 5 which serves as a successor to both variants.