[Crinus]

Because since it wasn't made by a big multibillion corporation, it is inherently unsafe, like every other thing not made by big multibillion corporations.

Only big money can be trusted.

(i'm obviously not serious here, but i do find it sad how people are fine trusting projects by FAANG, Microsoft, IBM and others of similar scale but once something is made by someone with a human face it suddenly is a problem unless it is a toy)

[Spivak]

Because single humans are busy, get bored, get distracted, stop wanting to maintain servers, stop wanting to pay for servers etc..

If the product was released by some self-sustaining entity like a business, foundation or otherwise bankrolled and staffed by parties with an interest in keeping it up then it would be much less of an issue.

The value in almost all software is the maintenance. React being good software is one thing, but what makes it so attractive is that Facebook and (and these days many others) have a financial interest in keeping it maintained.

[Crinus]

Yeah, because companies never abandon popular software (that might be Google's motto) and there are no "single humans" who work in projects for years.

[laacz]

Well, as deprecation track of niche services show, it's not safe even when backed by multibillion corporations :)

[oauea]

Microsoft owns GitHub. So this was created by Microsoft.

[Crinus]

Is this some joke i didn't understood? The linked project doesn't look like it was created by Microsoft or GitHub. Is the author working at Microsoft?