> a decade on you'll be able to determine which ones were the evergreens and had staying power while the rest will wilt and be forgotten. If only. A decade fro

> a decade on you'll be able to determine which ones were the evergreens and had staying power while the rest will wilt and be forgotten. If only. A decade from now, many of the existing projects will have died not from code quality but from project maintainer churn. This because the people that started the project to reimplement the old project has run out of features to implement, and thus is faced with the prospect of slowing down and fixing bugs. This to them is not fun, so they call out for someone to take over. More often than not, the person taking over is barely interested in the current code, mostly there for the glory, and invariably ends up deciding unilaterally that the current code is unmaintainable and thus a full rewrite is in order.