Wow, that’s honestly impressive.

If there was an option to guarantee versions could exist for X amount of years (maybe even months?) then that would greatly help the stability of projects.

I’m curious, how do you measure the pulse of a project that old? Do people still talk about it? Or that not even necessary — use it until it breaks and otherwise don’t think about it?

You’re absolutely right. My rational brain agrees and chalks it up to poor project management. However… emotions run high when you have zero idea why something isn’t working and the process of elimination is pretty taxing. So the point for me is venting / maybe someone will read this and remember to write their node version down!

The tragedy of running an old Node project

Hold on, you had to do binary surgery using an OpenSSL version from an old box you had? I salute the dedication.