28 comments

  • JSR_FDED 8 hours ago
    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.
  • photonthug 8 hours ago
    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 8 hours ago
      I'm sorry you had to learn about python this way.
    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      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 8 hours ago
    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 8 hours ago
      As my tool is.
  • sergix 7 hours ago
    Great tongue-in-cheek project. Ignore those who don't get the joke, and keep building fun stuff like this.
  • DetroitThrow 8 hours ago
    Deno, Rust, famously dead software projects.
    • jobehi 8 hours ago
      Almost. Like all techs are
      • DetroitThrow 8 hours ago
        I'd say you'd have to be brain dead to say either are "almost dead".

        Sorry, you offered a poorly made peanut gallery to a poorly made peanut gallery, I couldn't resist.

        • jobehi 8 hours ago
          It’s a Frankenstein made with duct tape and dead techs. The algo will evolve. It just needs more data
  • GolDDranks 8 hours ago
    Tried Knockout.js, Mithril.js, Marko.js, Rocket (Rust), none to be found.

    Also, the site seems to have abysmal performance.

    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      As it should be
  • dawatchusay 8 hours ago
    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 7 hours ago
      Would you mind to name it so we can show some respect
  • atrettel 7 hours ago
    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.
  • jppope 8 hours ago
    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 8 hours ago
      That’s right. But isn’t it how techs are declared dead ?
      • jppope 8 hours ago
        I'd probably go with adoption & activity spent building, but given the conversation seems like there might be a "tongue in cheek" aspect to this project ;)
        • jobehi 7 hours ago
          But anyway the algo will be adjusted and improved through iterations. The project is 2 days old
  • otterpro 7 hours ago
    I don't know what's going on with this website, but it just slowed my browser to a complete halt, and I've never seen any website that did this. I had to restart Chrome but still have some serious performance issue.
  • meander_water 7 hours ago
    This is already a solved problem.

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

    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      According to my algo, Snyk is also dead.
  • denkmoon 8 hours ago
    hilarious. you can mash f to pay respects too and it seems to count most of them.
  • alganet 7 hours ago
    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 7 hours ago
    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 7 hours ago
      People are still confused and call it angular.js
      • neom 7 hours ago
        Those insufferable tech elites, always messing up the names.
  • bikedspiritlake 8 hours ago
    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 8 hours ago
      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.

  • caffinatedkitti 8 hours ago
    React(js) seems to be holding the fort quite well, considering we are so quick to move on to the next big thing.
  • moqizhengz 7 hours ago
    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.

  • anoncow 8 hours ago
    Search doesn't work
    • jobehi 8 hours ago
      I used a dead tech to build the search. So I got what I deserve. Totally worth it
  • dijksterhuis 7 hours ago
    anyone else running a while loop with a curl command to inflate the respects paid numbers for their favourite tech? or am i the only weirdo?
  • mifydev 7 hours ago
    HN has declared supabase dead, how sad
    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      Even if the project was built with it.
  • mrcsharp 8 hours ago
    ASP.NET is endangered?
  • kevinmershon 8 hours ago
    no hits for clojure. I'm incredulous
  • fud101 7 hours ago
    It's good but that search bar is frustrating af. just debounce if you have to have that completing feature?
  • charcircuit 7 hours ago
    The hacker news signal seems broken. Most score nothing.
    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      Is it maybe dead too ?
  • gjsman-1000 8 hours ago
    Ionic, Supabase, and strapi by only the second page?

    This cannot be taken seriously.

  • fHr 8 hours ago
    where OSGI?
    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      We did find it, but it had split into 342 bundles
  • whalesalad 7 hours ago
    where riak, coffeescript, ember js
    • jobehi 7 hours ago
      Probably dead