Then I looked at the repo and realized, wow people are still using this gem, maybe I should maintain it.
I found out a week ago that HP is apparently has a team not only actively using it, but trying to build their own version which outperforms it. It amuses me greatly to see them publishing, with my stupid toy library citation from 2003 sitting first and second on every benchmark they use.
I wonder if it would make sense to have a low friction way for people to notify maintainers that they’re using a library? I guess stars are a little bit like that but people star stuff they don’t use.
Or maybe have something that would automatically crawl github for you and find out how many projects depended on your library.
There's already a form of this: https://github.com/waynehoover/s3_direct_upload/network/depe...
Too bad the language/manifest support seems to be so limited. I wonder if others are in the works?