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The tragedy of running an old Node project

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272 points abdisalan | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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sgt ◴[18 Nov 24 18:28 UTC] No.42175354[source]▶
I've actually had a node project go bad in a mere 4 months. It must be a new record. That was about 4-5 years ago though.

Hopefully the ecosystem as improved since then, but it was nearly impossible to get going.

Some packages had been changed and the version number overwritten with incompatible packages, and the conflicts were plenty.

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1. abdisalan ◴[18 Nov 24 18:38 UTC] No.42175458[source]▶
Wow, that’s honestly impressive.

If there was an option to guarantee versions could exist for X amount of years (maybe even months?) then that would greatly help the stability of projects.