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post a link to a stable repository on github on this site. watch as several people pipe up and say "last commit 2020; must be dead" source code is ascii text,
by gjvc 1y ago
post a link to a stable repository on github on this site. watch as several people pipe up and say "last commit 2020; must be dead"
source code is ascii text, and ascii text is not alive. it doesn't need to breathe, modulo dependencies, yes. but this attitude that "not active, must be dead and therefore: avoid" leads people to believing that the opposite: unproven and buggy new stuff, is always better.
silly counter-example: vim from 10 years ago is just as usable for the 90% case as the latest one
- tracker1 1y agoI don't assume it's dead based on the last commit. I will look a little further and see where it stands. If there hasn't been a commit for a few years AND there are multiple pull requests that have been sitting unmerged for years and dozens/hundreds of really old issues... then, I'll assume it's dead, and often open another issue asking if it's dead, if there isn't one already.