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There's really something to be said for software that is so ruthlessly simple it runs forever without maintenance. Like most of what DJB has written: djbdns still works after all these years... And of course Knuth's TeX.

Maybe people shouldn't start software projects if there isn't a "can leave it here unmaintained" milestone within sight.



> Maybe people shouldn't start software projects if there isn't a "can leave it here unmaintained" milestone within sight.

It's because these projects have tons of dependencies and moving parts which tend to break themselves (often for very little reasons) so of course it's going to affect upstream.

The software you listed are usually mostly self-contained or rely on stable projects.

There is no such thing as "stability" in the Node.js ecosystem (which isn't javascript itself).


I think you just said exactly what the parent comment meant.

Nodejs is the new Java jar dependency hell.

Maybe package the entire project into a docker container so that people can download and run the pile of dependencies in one step.


`entire project into a docker container `, like Linux Flatpak.

It is not a nodejs specific problem, every software with dependencies has it. (some more, some less)




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