I wanted to use nanomsg 6 months ago. Google alone, at the time, had it as a better zmq. I had to <i>really</i> read between the lines at the time to figure that it was losing momentum. It was not an easy sense.<p>I&#x27;m glad this forthright piece puts nanomsg incontrovertibly to pasture. It&#x27;s thanks to clear pieces like this that people are able to navigate the open source world and choose technologies which, if they may not be theoretically the best, have the much more important characteristic that they are long lived, alive.