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		scrps on June 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sorry everybody, I failed with you It would be nice to have a similar system to the language metric at the bottom of a repo, have something like a library metric that list what external libraries a project uses and feed those metrics back to the maintainers.

nitrogen on June 7, 2021 [–]

GitHub does show a dependency list in the sidebar for some projects.

swiftcoder on June 7, 2021 | [–]

Unfortunately, they don't have dependency plugins for a bunch of popular languages. Even languages with well-structured dependency tracking like Rust.

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