Hey thanks! I used to work on Nylas Mail at Nylas and I'm the author of the Mailspring fork.
It's definitely sad to see this post, but Nylas has remained committed to open source and I think they've done this right. Relicensing everything under MIT ensures the product will have a bright future, even though Nylas has better opportunities it needs to pursue for it's employees and investors.
Would love for you to check out Mailspring (http://getmailspring.com) when it launches this month. We always struggled to implement performant, battery-friendly mail sync in JavaScript, and Mailspring essentially "rebases" the entire JavaScript UI on top of a new C++ sync engine built on mailcore2. You get the flexibility of JavaScript + plugins + themes with a much lighter profile.
It's definitely sad to see this post, but Nylas has remained committed to open source and I think they've done this right. Relicensing everything under MIT ensures the product will have a bright future, even though Nylas has better opportunities it needs to pursue for it's employees and investors.
Would love for you to check out Mailspring (http://getmailspring.com) when it launches this month. We always struggled to implement performant, battery-friendly mail sync in JavaScript, and Mailspring essentially "rebases" the entire JavaScript UI on top of a new C++ sync engine built on mailcore2. You get the flexibility of JavaScript + plugins + themes with a much lighter profile.