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 # Myst
 
+**UNMAINTAINED:** After more than 5 years sitting stagnant, Myst is definitively dormant and the website/domain has not been renewed. Thanks for your interest over the years.
+
 **A structured, dynamic, general-purpose language.**
 
 ```ruby