We just wrote one that does something similar for Typescript if anyone wants us to OSS it... The idea is that any stale code causes a HUGE amount of headache and removing it can be a life safer.
+1 !
Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
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Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#42Is this drastically different than https://unused.codes/ ?
From a quick reading, yes. Your tool identifies code that is never run. The featured tool identifies code that never _will be_ run if we make X change to the API.
Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#43The latest place I work has a dusty monolith full of skeletons and zombies. They’ve been migrating off it to micro services for like 5 years now.
I’d be nice to have a tool to clean it up. But the use cases is slightly different than this one.
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#44Wow, so if you wanted to leave an example of something, it would get auto-deleted? What could possibly go wrong?
Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#45Total nit pick, but I think Piranha is a totally wrong name here. Piranhas mostly feed on fresh meat, its known they are excited and eager to attack when victim moves in water, reassuring predator that its a healthy meat. Much better name would be Scavenger, or Vulture - a bird of prey that eats on dead meat. I assume you would rather cleanup your program from dead code, rather than strip it down to the bone from liv…
Or maggot ?
Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#46We just wrote one that does something similar for Typescript if anyone wants us to OSS it... The idea is that any stale code causes a HUGE amount of headache and removing it can be a life safer.
What does OSS stand for?
I know the OS stands for Open Source, but can't quite figure out how this would be used as a verb...
Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#47We just wrote one that does something similar for Typescript if anyone wants us to OSS it... The idea is that any stale code causes a HUGE amount of headache and removing it can be a life safer.
What does OSS stand for? I know the OS stands for Open Source, but can't quite figure out how this would be used as a verb...
it stands for "open-source software". It's never abbreviated as "OS" for obvious reasons.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does OSS stand for? I know the OS stands for Open Source, but can't quite figure out how this would be used as a verb...
it stands for "open-source software". It's never abbreviated as "OS" for obvious reasons.
Thanks, I guess I'll add "Open Source Software" to my list of unusual yet widely understood verbs.
The English language confuses a native German speaker once again!
Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
it stands for "open-source software". It's never abbreviated as "OS" for obvious reasons.
Thanks, I guess I'll add "Open Source Software" to my list of unusual yet widely understood verbs. The English language confuses a native German speaker once again!
I wouldn't call it unusual although I hear FOSS more often.
Re: Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
#50We just wrote one that does something similar for Typescript if anyone wants us to OSS it... The idea is that any stale code causes a HUGE amount of headache and removing it can be a life safer.
Piranha author here -- Will you be willing to contribute it to Piranha?