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Can you give me some examples? Because in my experience even very stable, very "foundational" libs and frameworks that I know about and use almost never go 5 ye
by mardifoufs 2y ago
Can you give me some examples? Because in my experience even very stable, very "foundational" libs and frameworks that I know about and use almost never go 5 years without any commit/change. There's always either a small bug fix, or some update to a build script, updated documentation, or something.
The only repos where that's not the case are usually very niche, and in that case it becomes very hard to judge if the library is just very stable or a minefield of bugs and undesired behavior that no one else reported because no one else is using it.
- Retric 2y agoBeing able to tell if something doesn’t need to be updated is a separate question. There’s many signs such as lacking external dependencies, but the point is such software exists not that there is an easy heuristic for finding it. I think the best examples are the reference implementation of some algorithm. There’s generally room for improvement, but keeping it simple is the point.