Bend can no longer be installed by its own instructions: GitHub hid the repository with 22 thousand stars

The flag was applied to the entire bendlang organization, not a single repository: GitHub hid it from the public altogether. On 22.09.2026, github.com/bendlang/bend and github.com/bendlang return 404 both in the browser and through the authenticated API, while the VictorTaelin account and the HigherOrderCO organization remain accessible as normal.

Installation does not work. The install script downloads the v2.0.25 binary from bendlang releases, with no fallback to another source, so `curl -fsSL https://bend-lang.com/install.sh | sh` fails during the download. The project website remains live: bend-lang.com, hub.bend-lang.com, and the bender page all return 200, with no mention of the block.

The source remains in forks. The AmirulAndalib/Bend fork, whose parent is bendlang/bend, opens; its latest commit is from 21.09.2026, and the tree is complete: bend2, guide, tests, paper. The main archive downloads through codeload. There are no release binaries in the fork, so it will have to be built from source.

The previous backup address was github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend, home to Bend v1 with around 19 thousand stars. It now returns 404 as well. All that remains of the old home is the HigherOrderCO/Bend2 stub with 9 stars and one commit, whose README points to github.com/bendlang/bend: a dead link.

What happens next depends entirely on GitHub support: Taelin wrote on 21.09 that the team is trying to reach it.