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

(isthistechdead.com)

45 points | by jobehi 17 hours ago ago

57 comments

  • JSR_FDED 16 hours ago 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.

    • jobehi 7 hours ago ago

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

  • photonthug 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

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

    • jobehi 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

      As my tool is.

  • sergix 15 hours ago ago

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

  • GolDDranks 15 hours ago ago

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

    Also, the site seems to have abysmal performance.

    • jobehi 15 hours ago ago

      As it should be

  • DetroitThrow 16 hours ago ago

    Deno, Rust, famously dead software projects.

    • jobehi 16 hours ago ago

      Almost. Like all techs are

      • DetroitThrow 16 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

          It’s a Frankenstein made with duct tape and dead techs. The algo will evolve. It just needs more data

  • helij 2 hours ago ago

    Where's Bottle.py?

    Otherwise cool tool.

  • dawatchusay 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

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

  • jppope 16 hours ago 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 16 hours ago ago

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

      • jppope 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

          But anyway the algo will be adjusted and improved through iterations. The project is 2 days old

  • K0IN 7 hours ago ago

    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 6 hours ago ago

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

  • atrettel 15 hours ago 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.

  • otterpro 15 hours ago 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.

    • jobehi 7 hours ago ago

      the website hasn't been tested on windows vista, sorry

  • meander_water 15 hours ago ago

    This is already a solved problem.

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

    • jobehi 15 hours ago ago

      According to my algo, Snyk is also dead.

  • denkmoon 16 hours ago ago

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

  • alganet 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

      People are still confused and call it angular.js

      • neom 15 hours ago ago

        Those insufferable tech elites, always messing up the names.

  • bikedspiritlake 16 hours ago 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 15 hours ago 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 16 hours ago ago

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

    • jobehi 16 hours ago ago

      For now.

  • moqizhengz 15 hours ago 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 16 hours ago ago

    Search doesn't work

    • jobehi 16 hours ago ago

      I used a dead tech to build the search. So I got what I deserve. Totally worth it

  • undefined 16 hours ago ago
    [deleted]
  • dijksterhuis 15 hours ago 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 15 hours ago ago

    HN has declared supabase dead, how sad

    • jobehi 15 hours ago ago

      Even if the project was built with it.

  • mrcsharp 15 hours ago ago

    ASP.NET is endangered?

  • kevinmershon 15 hours ago ago

    no hits for clojure. I'm incredulous

  • fud101 15 hours ago ago

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

  • charcircuit 15 hours ago ago

    The hacker news signal seems broken. Most score nothing.

    • jobehi 15 hours ago ago

      Is it maybe dead too ?

  • gjsman-1000 16 hours ago ago

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

    This cannot be taken seriously.

  • fHr 15 hours ago ago

    where OSGI?

    • jobehi 15 hours ago ago

      We did find it, but it had split into 342 bundles

  • whalesalad 15 hours ago ago

    where riak, coffeescript, ember js

    • jobehi 15 hours ago ago

      Probably dead