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So many alphas but no beta
I guess it takes time to built a DE from scratch.
The alpha began in August of last year, and will continue to be classified as alpha until all features are finished.
Alpha vs beta is usually about feature completion. I am quite happy they have more ambition in terms of what features they want to ship.
Progress has been steady and each alpha has delivered a solid list of improvements. This looks like a good one, especially the memory usage.
soon ™