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

https://www.isthistechdead.com

by jobehi • 1 year ago

48 55 1 year ago

isthistechdead.com

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

gjsman-1000• 1 year ago

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

This cannot be taken seriously.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

Yes.

anoncow• 1 year ago

Search doesn't work

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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

JSR_FDED• 1 year 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.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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

bikedspiritlake• 1 year 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• 1 year 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.

DetroitThrow2• 1 year ago

Deno, Rust, famously dead software projects.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

Almost. Like all techs are

DetroitThrow2• 1 year 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.

denkmoon• 1 year ago

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

caffinatedkitti• 1 year ago

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

jobehi20• 1 year ago

For now.

jppope2• 1 year 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

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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

jppope2• 1 year 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 ;)

kevinmershon• 1 year ago

no hits for clojure. I'm incredulous

ceautery• 1 year 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.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

As my tool is.

dawatchusay• 1 year 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.

moqizhengz2• 1 year ago

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

GolDDranks• 1 year ago

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

Also, the site seems to have abysmal performance.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

As it should be

photonthug• 1 year 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• 1 year ago

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

jobehi20• 1 year 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

mrcsharp• 1 year ago

ASP.NET is endangered?

fHr• 1 year ago

where OSGI?

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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

whalesalad• 1 year ago

where riak, coffeescript, ember js

jobehi20• 1 year ago

Probably dead

mifydev• 1 year ago

HN has declared supabase dead, how sad

jobehi20• 1 year ago

Even if the project was built with it.

atrettel• 1 year 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.

sergix• 1 year ago

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

meander_water• 1 year ago

This is already a solved problem.

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

jobehi20• 1 year ago

According to my algo, Snyk is also dead.

charcircuit• 1 year ago

The hacker news signal seems broken. Most score nothing.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

Is it maybe dead too ?

neom2• 1 year 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??

jobehi20• 1 year ago

People are still confused and call it angular.js

neom2• 1 year ago

Those insufferable tech elites, always messing up the names.

fud101• 1 year ago

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

moqizhengz2• 1 year 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.

alganet• 1 year 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).

otterpro• 1 year 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.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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

dijksterhuis• 1 year 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?

K0IN• 1 year 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

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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

helij• 1 year ago

Where's Bottle.py?

Otherwise cool tool.

jobehi20• 1 year ago

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.

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

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