I rather like that npm says "installed 123 packages from 45 authors". It gives you a sense of how big the team you're depending on is.
I'd love to see something similar for other parts of the stack: "43 kernel developers have worked on your wifi driver!"
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Shower thought: Printing runtime values is far more useful for product types than sum types.
For a struct it's useful to see all the fields, but for a nullable int it's less useful to see 123.
Rust's dbg! macro (new in 1.32) is delightful. You write dbg!(my_var) and you get a print statement that writes:
[src/my_file.rs:123] my_var = "value of my_var"
It's a huge ergonomic help when debugging!
One nice thing about JIRA is that it encourages separate namespaces for IDs. You can have FOO-123 and BAR-123. Too many tools want to own #123 and it becomes harder to know what others are talking about.