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by masklinn 4744 days ago
> In practice, I look first at the project description and the beginning of the README to see how the project describes its own strengths and weaknesses. Many projects describe their major language choices and runtime requirements as a part of that description, so I never look at the language color bar unless I need to.

And even if they don't clearly spell those out in the readme, metadata/packaging files are usually at the top level of the library.