Emacs package names tend to be odd, internally consistent and memorable. Great example: Kill or Bury Alive
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I've seen lots of metrics to decide if an open source project is alive: age of bugs, number of pull requests open, number of commits in a time period.
When choosing libraries, I've realised I only look at the last commit time. That's sufficient activity IME.
Finding bugs in LLVM IR optimisers: programmatically generate small (loop free, no control flow) functions, run your favourite middle end passes, and verify the output is equivalent!
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1510
(Uses Alive to verify and 4000 CPUs of compute.)
ALIVE has found and verified peephole optimisations in LLVM that can apply in more cases than currently implemented: