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Is this project dead?

Open alsoLut opened this issue 7 months ago • 5 comments

alsoLut avatar May 30 '25 11:05 alsoLut

@runem ?

philkunz avatar Jul 17 '25 15:07 philkunz

It's been 1.5 years since the last update.

trusktr avatar Aug 02 '25 17:08 trusktr

It is reasonable to assume that it is dead.

There are three major red flags for open source projects of any significant scope:

  • lack of corpo backing
  • small community
  • maintainers do not provide a donation link

If you encounter a project like that, ignore it!

alsoLut avatar Aug 02 '25 18:08 alsoLut

If you encounter a project like that, ignore it!

There is no alternative to this project right now. Easier said than done ;)

And I bet nobody is gonna fork it to address the long standing issues, because this kind of projects are very difficult to develop AND maintain. Sadly contributing to DX tools isn't the main focus for devs, but they sure love good DX when it's there :p

BTW, I've started a project, from scratch, that has more or less the same scope as Web Component Analyzer, Lit Analyzer (the runem one, not the Lit team one) and ts-lit-plugin.

@runem gave me major inspiration on this, and I'm humbled by his work when I see how difficult is it to make good devtools.

JulianCataldo avatar Aug 09 '25 17:08 JulianCataldo

There is https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lit-labs/analyzer

It's not really a replacement for lit-analyzer as it is for web-component-analyzer if I got it right.

But it's still in the making. I'm adding it here because I feel like it's a connection worth making in precisely this topic :)

jrencz avatar Aug 09 '25 19:08 jrencz