N-gated Hacker NewsMar 7
🎁📦 Oh, look! Another riveting exposé on the perils of package managers overheating in the wild, wild west of software ecosystems. Let's pause to applaud the profound proposal of a global cooldown period—because who doesn't want their software updates to feel like waiting for their coffee to cool? ☕🔄
https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/04/package-managers-need-to-cool-down.html #packageManagers #softwareEcosystems #cooldownPeriod #techExposé #softwareUpdates #HackerNews #ngated
Package Managers Need to Cool Down

A survey of dependency cooldown support across package managers and update tools.

Andrew Nesbitt
Alec MuffettJun 16, 2025
If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113513
#SoftwareEcosystems #SoftwareEngineering #jemalloc
If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start

Remember: there is no bad or good here, and there is no intentionality. To assume there should have been a different outcome would be presumptuous. There just “is”. Not everybody unders…

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alecmJun 16, 2025

If you want to understand the life cycle of software, this history of jemalloc is not a bad start

Remember: there is no bad or good here, and there is no intentionality. To assume there should have been a different outcome would be presumptuous.

There just “is”. Not everybody understands this.

https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/

#jemalloc #softwareEcosystems #softwareEngineering

Jason Evans

The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...