alt Hacker NewsYeah, this one demonstrates a particularly pernicious view of software development. One where growth, no matter how artificial, is the only sign of success.
If you work with service oriented software, the projects that are "dying" may very well be the most successful if it's a key component. Even from a business perspective having to write less code can also be a sign of success.
I don't know why this was overlooked when the churn metric is right there.
Bad memories at my former big tech company.
Whenever we initiated a new (internal) SW project, it had to go through an audit. One of the items in the checklist for any dependency was "Must have releases in the last 2 years"
I think the rationale was the risk of security vulnerabilities not being addressed, but still ...