"Is This Tech Dead?" A snarky autopsy engine for your dead frameworks

[jobehi]

Hi HN, I built this irony and data driven Regret-as-a-service tool to almost scientifically declare tech deaths. F.

[JSR_FDED]

Love the attitude, disagree with the content. Vue.js is “critical”? Rust is “Endangered”? Then I realized it’s not about the content - it’s a reflection on our obsession with chasing the new thing and declaring the recent thing dead.

[jobehi]

the algorithm is still in its embryonic phase, not enough data and budget. May evolve soon... or die

[photonthug]

Pretty bad. Stack-overflow and hackernews metrics don't work, python is considered 100% dead and 70% dead respectively. By trying to search in the page with control-f.. I voted for death? Reddit and youtube are not remotely reasonable proxies for project health. Naturally no one likes wordpress, but it runs like 40% of sites on the internet, and it's also 40% "dead", which seems wrong. Why is there a newsletter? My advice is to throw away all the social media garbage, including hackernews sentiments, focus on github metrics for commits, issues, and forks.. see if you can add anything new there

[neuroelectron]

I'm sorry you had to learn about python this way.

[jobehi]

It will definitely evolve. Feedbacks like this are important to improve the algorithm. You can see it now as a prototype. The project is 2 days old

[ceautery]

You're calling frameworks with two day old commits critical and terminal? As Mark Twain would say, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

[jobehi]

As my tool is.

[sergix]

Great tongue-in-cheek project. Ignore those who don't get the joke, and keep building fun stuff like this.

[GolDDranks]

Tried Knockout.js, Mithril.js, Marko.js, Rocket (Rust), none to be found.

Also, the site seems to have abysmal performance.

[jobehi]

As it should be

[DetroitThrow]

Deno, Rust, famously dead software projects.

[jobehi]

Almost. Like all techs are

[dawatchusay]

I put in the web framework that our company’s ecosystem is based on and it said “no results.” At first I thought this was part of the joke, but no, our tech is just beyond dead.

[moqizhengz]

Would you mind to name it so we can show some respect

[bikedspiritlake]

The execution is a little iffy. Deno is nowhere close to being dead, and Elm is intentionally frozen for stability. The website also appears to be quite laggy, especially the dropdown menu for sorting.

That being said, it's a really cool idea and I'm glad how open it is. This has the potential to become an authoritative and useful source for considering software stability and support.

[gorjusborg]

I'd say Deno never got to be quite alive.

Node is the big player and Bun is the promising upstart from where I sit.

[jppope]

Looks like a cool project. That said, it doesn't pass the sniff test on the methodology- Something like 30% of the score is just related to bitching and instability. Imagine a crazy world where maintainers/owners do a good job on serving their community and building good tech... clearly a death sentence

[jobehi]

That’s right. But isn’t it how techs are declared dead ?

[atrettel]

According to this, Fortran may still be alive. Having written a lot of Fortran over the last decade, I knew Fortran is alive and well, but I would have though that this site would pick up the "Fortran is dead" meme from other places. Good on OP to recognize Fortran maybe isn't dead.

[meander_water]

This is already a solved problem.

Snyk advisor provides a decent package health score - https://snyk.io/advisor/npm-package/react

[jobehi]

According to my algo, Snyk is also dead.

[denkmoon]

hilarious. you can mash f to pay respects too and it seems to count most of them.

[jobehi]

Ok so found out that HN flagged this post yesterday after it made it to top “show” that’s good news because my supabase bill was going up.

[alganet]

In my books, cordova is not dead. The name might have changed but its essence live in all other web-native hybrids out there (it's more alive than ever).

[neom]

Is angular actually more dead than ember? I know Tom is trying to keep it alive over there at linkedin, but is it still used anywhere else??

[jobehi]

People are still confused and call it angular.js

[fud101]

It's good but that search bar is frustrating af. just debounce if you have to have that completing feature?

[caffinatedkitti]

React(js) seems to be holding the fort quite well, considering we are so quick to move on to the next big thing.

[jobehi]

For now.

[K0IN]

my phone drops from 120 to 60 Hz when my battery gets low, for a brief moment I thought that my phone is getting empty just to return to Hackernews and noticing how bad the performance of this site is, for an webapp that just shows names and some numbers

[jobehi]

you're right, support for windows phone will be added soon

[moqizhengz]

idk, but this website itself seems pretty dead to me.

It feels pretty laggy. It cause my CPU to reach ~60% when simply hovering on items. It is built with Nextjs 15. It shows 1 result found and an empty list when I search Nextjs.

[gjsman-1000]

Ionic, Supabase, and strapi by only the second page?

This cannot be taken seriously.

[jobehi]

Yes.