[goodpoint]

...then they get the job and the library or tool goes unmaintained.

Endless churn ensues. See the javascript ecosystem.

[goodpoint]

To clarify: I'm in no way opposed to experimentation, learning and weekend projects.

But there current "github-centered" development culture makes it very difficult to tell if authors are invested in their FOSS projects are going to maintain them or not.

As the churn keeps increasing we can end up with ecosystems collapsing.

In comparison, the library maintained since 2003 by the Nebraska person is less worrying. https://xkcd.com/2347/

[marcus_holmes]

Also, the "don't write code, just find a library that does what you want to do and plumb it in" mentality means that people approach a problem by searching Github, find these half-finished experiments, and ship them to prod.

I exaggerate, of course, but not by much

[goodpoint]

This is why FAANGs rewrite a lot of stuff. Having control over a library developed internally VS being at the mercy of random accounts on github.