Which languages have the shortest/longest half-life?
If you didn't write any code in language X for five years, how easily could you continue maintaining an old project?
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The longest common subsequence here is ( ) ( ) ; which is not terribly helpful. I'm going to have to look at proper tree diffing techniques.
Turns out that patching Emacs' library loading whilst silencing user feedback can lead to some really interesting bugs: https://github.com/cask/shut-up/pull/12/commits/2495e8bf3d424f88f82679dd94def6b87960c4a9
This might be the longest commit message I've ever written. I think a good message tries to persuade the maintainer to accept the PR.