No. Foxi is on a one man mission to keeping DS homebrew alive.

 

When you talk about homebrews,
are you also considering emulators?
If no, then they're alive, at least for a while.

Just look at NesDS,
which released 1.3a a few weeks ago.

 

There are still some homebrew devs here and there keeping it alive, but the smartphone scene did take over a lot of DS homebrew scene.

 

There is a sticky, but off the top of my head, there are ports of Doom, Quake, OpenTyrian, Duke3D, etc. Game engines for running Flashback (REminiscense) and Another World. Colors, LemmingsDS, and original games like StillAlive, Warcraft Tower Defence and World of Sand. Also the LoneWolf books... err.. games look very good, I'm gonna start getting in to them soon.

 

There are tons of great homebrews out there!
http://gbatemp.net/topic/258689-essentials-homebrew/
And that list is just the tip of the iceberg!

 

Anyone who even suspects that homebrew is dead is dumb. Period. I take no prisoners.

 

I don't see how anyone could consider it "dead". The DS hardware is nearing eight years old now though, and it's a bit limited in terms of what it's capable of compared to newer devices, so it makes sense that there will be fewer active developers for it compared to when the hardware was new. There is still new homebrew being released for it though, like the FPS Maker / First-Person Portal game that I see you already commented on.

If the 3DS gets made Homebrew-capable sometime in the near future, using either an inexpensive flash cart or softmod, I could definitely see that taking off, as there currently aren't any other widespread portable devices with 3D screens. It would be even greater if Nintendo ever opened up their 3DS development tools to the public, rather than requiring potential developers to be approved by them and spend thousands of dollars for the privilege. I can't help but think a more open system like that would ultimately help them remain relevant as many people move to smartphones and tablets for their portable gaming.

 

Nowadays ARM7 is practically ignored unless you really, really, really want to write a custom core for it or improve upon the existing one. Communication between the two CPU's has been greatly simplified, but I can't even begin to imagine why you'd need the ARM7 to begin with, given the fact that it already takes care of a lot of things for you. If you're anything like myself, you begun learning when libnds was convoluted and hard to master - this is no longer the case. A lot of things have been simplified, and with the amount of tools to help you out and tutorials available online, it's no longer a pain. As a person who's never touched libnds until last week, I was perfectly capable of writing a few scripts for some of the other coders who had issues. Now, I still recommend NFLib for complete newbies, but libnds is no longer a fearsome monster it used to be and contains loads of wrappers for previously cryptic registers. The only problem it has is that it's updated very often and while you rarely encounter deprecated functions, the documentation and examples cannot keep up with the changes and leave a lot to be desired.

 

I don't really think the scene is dead to be honest! I mean, i've got big plans to create a brand new scene for this old console. All you guys on GBAtemp will be the first to hear about all my betas and everything I do! That's if the mods are fine with it! The NDS Scene might be quieter than it used to but, surely it can't be dead! I mean, look at FUK Team and EgoTrip! They are all making homebrews. I will too after I finish C++ and DS Programming: From Zero to Hero! I other and simpler words. The scene can't be dead! And just to annoy realWinterMute, i'll go and say that there are still thriving C64 and ZX Spectrum scenes out there today. I mean! Just look at those scenes. And they're for 20 year old computers!

EDIT: I asked about downloading NDS homebrews once on GBAtemp and got a very similar argument about this "dead" scene!

 

Thank's for all the comments!
I'm learning LUA for ds (i use a LUA player), and if i programmed something, i will post it in the Homebrew Section.
Thanks for the inspiration!