@neauoire dead stable more like

@neauoire devine you gotta keep up on the dependabot anhedonic treadmill dont u know??????

@neauoire *proceeds to create a fork that adds a commit to the docs and then gets abandoned for eternity*

@neauoire “Dead”? No. It’s “Done”.

@neauoire The JavaScript “if it hasn’t been updated in the last hour it’s dead” mind virus has unfortunately been infecting other communities lately

@neauoire The software isn't dead, it's 1000% completed.

@neauoire Meanwhile in Common Lisp it's the norm for libraries and projects to go for years without significant updates or commits. No one bats an eye and we still just use the stuff. Its interesting how folks are taught to distrust projects that don't have non-stop activity.

@neauoire I wish this were any sort of one-off. Three of the metrics I was required to use by a former boss in evaluating dependencies (libraries or devtools) were

- GitHub/GitLab stars
- Frequency of commits
- Proportion of open to closed issues and PRs in the tracker

I still usually was able to make a case for something that hadn't seen dev work in 3mo. Sometimes even 6mo. If there hadn't been commits in >6mo to the main branch, that boss usually considered the tool abandonware :flan_rage:

@neauoire good reply Devine 👍

@neauoire software just can't die you know 🙄

this honestly sounds dark