[cfuendev]

I think it was basically this dude building an LLVM compiler for Porth, which made Porth's creator (Tsoding Daily) uncomfortable because he felt like he was on a race to see who made his own unfinished language better. He says individuals with an "s", so I'm not sure who else he might be talking about, but I remember this LLVM person being the big shocking reason why he initially closed the source code.

As far as I remember, the LLVM dude apologized in a public comment on the same video where Tsoding complained about this, claiming he was closing the LLVM repo and explaining it was just a toy project he made to understand LLVM better that got some attention.

[stjo]

This is quite stupid in my opinion. I don't see how you "help" the language discouraging others from forking/improving the project.

[gaetgu]

While I agree, I can also see where the creator is coming from here. He is working on making his very unfinished language, and someone else comes and starts making an optimized LLVM version of it. The creator certainly doesn't want the language to always look like it does today—after all, he is still actively working on it, adding new features every week. But he is afraid that the LLVM version will be so much better that people will use that instead of his work-in-progress compiler, and so they will be stuck with an old version of his language.

I think he should have handled it better. Maybe explaining why he didn't want a fork (he may have done this, I haven't watched his porth series specifically), and maybe asking the guy to put out something in his README.