mikeal commented 6 days ago:
> Let’s just bump the major version when we deprecate. That way most people depending on the project won’t see this error until they try to upgrade to a new major, which means they are actively developing it and really should look for an alternative.
The problem is that most of replacements are of lower quality than request.
I just moved to request from axios about a week ago. Axios has multi-year persistent bugs around proxy support, modifying https agents, and unhandled promise exceptions. Probably due to low contributions (the code base is quite complex). You only find these out after investing into axios heavily.
To new users axios looks superficially as good as request (similar number of users, promises by design, etc)