JavaScript libraries are rarely updated in the wild. Cloudflare is observing increasing usage even for old versions of jQuery! https://blog.cloudflare.com/javascript-libraries-are-almost-never-updated/amp/
It'd be interesting to normalise against total web traffic size.
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One advantage I've come to appreciate about Dash/Zeal docsets: it's really nice having focused search.
The text search is constrained to the languages I care about enough to download the docset, substantially increasing the relevance. In Google I'd need to specify the language.
One interesting side effect of software productivity increasing: libraries can become more idiosyncratic.
It's easier than ever to release important libraries as an individual. Single-maintainer projects inevitably have more personality -- for both good and bad!
I feel like increasing visibility of a function/type should require more verbosity. I don't know of any PL that follows this design principle for >2 levels though.
Ordered by verbosity:
public, private, protected
, pub, pub(crate)
Has any PL solved this?