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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: 0s | source
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RadiozRadioz ◴[19 Nov 24 14:39 UTC] No.42183900[source]▶
I call this phenomenon "node rot". Judging by the comments here, it seems like a universal experience.

My favorite is the way that Python projects rot. Not only does Python's setuptools give you all the fun that node-gyp does, the common practice of versioning packages with packagename>=1.25.5 means you're almost guaranteed breakages as pip installs newer versions of packages than what the project was built with.

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lexlambda ◴[19 Nov 24 16:37 UTC] No.42185344[source]▶
And project specifying "requires python 3.X+" instead of Version X to Y is also a major culprit I often encounter.

Most of the times it will not work with the newest shiny python, which I only notice after already installing it and then having searched search the Github issues.

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1. __MatrixMan__ ◴[21 Nov 24 23:47 UTC] No.42209854[source]▶
That happens to me all the time. It helped cement my habit of binding the python version to the project with direnv and a flake.nix so I end up switching to the right version when I cd to the project dir.