Alternative title: 82% of projects on GitHub have an outdated code formatting library as a dependency.
I wouldn’t call this tool rot. This to me seems like fear-mongering to drive conversions of yet another tool for managing dependencies from the company behind this blog post.
It would be interesting to maybe analyse usage of React, Django, Laravel or such popular projects which you might be certain are key to a GitHub project and might lead to some interesting observations.
Instead i would summarise this article as a graph of a few searches on github that give you as much data as relevant stats page from npm or PyPI - not much.
What conclusions can we draw that some projects on github, which we have no idea how big or how used they are, run an outdated code formatter? Maybe 82% of them are archived, abandoned or were one offs to learn the language?
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Alternative title: 82% of projects on GitHub have an outdated code formatting library as a dependency.
I wouldn’t call this tool rot. This to me seems like fear-mongering to drive conversions of yet another tool for managing dependencies from the company behind this blog post.
It would be interesting to maybe analyse usage of React, Django, Laravel or such popular projects which you might be certain are key to a GitHub project and might lead to some interesting observations.
Instead i would summarise this article as a graph of a few searches on github that give you as much data as relevant stats page from npm or PyPI - not much.
What conclusions can we draw that some projects on github, which we have no idea how big or how used they are, run an outdated code formatter? Maybe 82% of them are archived, abandoned or were one offs to learn the language?