Is this project still alive

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Hi,

I found thus language great and I do think that it needs to be more popular but 
I would like to know if it's still alive.
I tried to email author but no answer so far.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by v.richomme@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2012 at 1:51

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It's weird how someone can developp a project like this and spend so much time 
and disappear after. I tried to contact main developer but no answer.
I would be ready to invest some time and money because this project can be the 
bridge between the .net and java world but before I would like to be sure that 
there is no problem regarding some patents. Is is an attempt from Microsoft to 
impose its c# language on the jvm world ?

Original comment by v.richomme@gmail.com on 26 Jan 2012 at 10:32

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The nice thing about it being open source is that someone with enough know how 
should be able to pick it back up on their own. Granted, it would need to be 
forked and renamed since no one can get in touch with the original developer 
but it's always an option.

Original comment by gregory....@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2012 at 1:53

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Of course it's an open source project and any good developer could fork it but 
I am just curious how this project is born. When you look at source code 
everything is clean and I am surprised that a unique developer wrote all this 
by himself and then give up his baby.

Original comment by v.richomme@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2012 at 3:23

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@v.richomme@gmail.com - I doubt that patents are really a problem although you 
never know for sure. Personally, I think that writing any software can attract 
patent problems but I would not worry about Microsoft.

The Mono Project (http://mono-project.com) put out their Open Source C# 
compiler more than ten years ago now and Microsoft has been actively supportive 
of their efforts. Of course, Stab is not a C# implementation.

Original comment by malcolm....@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 8:04

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@gregory....@gmail.com - Renaming it would be great. Stab is not really a 
fantastic name. It was a play on "sharp" (as in C#) I assume. 

Original comment by malcolm....@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 8:05

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If it was to be forked, I would be willing to help. Unfortunately, it would not 
be anything that I could lead. I do not have that sort of time on my hands at 
the moment. :-/

Original comment by gregory....@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 10:58

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There's little reason for a fork because there is Kotlin. I'm about 95% sure 
"stab hacker" was Andrey Breslav.

Original comment by semwebia@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2012 at 4:21

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Damnt it! I think you are right, that would explain why nobody answered and why 
everything was so clean. They are building with Kotlin a mix between Java, D, 
groovy and scala.Seems to be a nice language. Just would be curious to know why 
they finally drop stab language. Just hope this language will have more 
communication around it so that some people starts to develop some plugins for 
ide, build framework, ...
Now the next war is : Groovy++ vs Kotlin.

Original comment by v.richomme@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2012 at 8:49

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Kotlin does not share the same goal of stab though. Which is to have a Java/C# 
syntax for Java which supports much of the language features in the .Net 
environment. I personally would rather work with stab than with Kotlin, in my 
honest opinion.

Original comment by gregory....@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2012 at 2:22

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Has someone forked this project? 

Original comment by treeson...@gmail.com on 19 May 2014 at 2:49