Yeah, sometimes people on HN make this assumption in the other direction, insisting that such-and-such a project is surely very mature (with a very quiet userbase) and not dead, on account of it not having any recent updates. But sometimes projects are truly just dead and buried. E.g., the million old frameworks and libraries that haven't been touched since 2005 and haven't had a functioning website since 2015. Bonus points if the only downloads were hosted on a SourceForge clone that also no longer exists outside the Internet Archive.
It's sometimes possible for a project to have 0 bugs to fix and 0 in-scope improvements (for performance, compatibility, etc.) left to make, but only if its scope is extremely limited. Even Knuth still gets bug reports for his age-old TeX.
It's sometimes possible for a project to have 0 bugs to fix and 0 in-scope improvements (for performance, compatibility, etc.) left to make, but only if its scope is extremely limited. Even Knuth still gets bug reports for his age-old TeX.