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by diggan 830 days ago
Not that I think download metrics is the best metric to decide that, but even with that, flow-bin has almost half a million of downloads per day. That's far away from dead, at least in my world. And I'm guessing that doesn't count anything from Facebook as they most likely run their own registries.
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dcre 830 days ago
flow-bin has substantially fewer downloads than coffeescript and both are declining. That is a dead project.

https://npmtrends.com/coffeescript-vs-flow-bin

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mirekrusin 829 days ago
It's not as popular as typescript but not dead, it's consistently active for a decade [0].

Compare it with typescript [1] contributions if you want.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/flow/graphs/contributors

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/graphs/contributors

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mirekrusin 829 days ago
Don't you find it interesting that node-fetch is slightly less-dead otherwise has exactly the same "aliveness" as typescript [0] from your source (click 5 years)?

[0] https://npmtrends.com/node-fetch-vs-typescript

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