[hnlmorg]

> > spiped didn't exist when that article was written (or if it did, it certainly wasn't mature).

> it was used in production on tarsnap's infrastructure since it is the same author. It had [3 minor] releases+ by the time the article was written. And [the initial release] was in debian [unstable] by the end of the year 2013 [after the article was written].

You're not exactly making a strong case there but fine, I'll concede it did exist and had some undefined degree of maturity that we're never going to prove nor disprove. :)

+ it was 3 minor releases not 4. The 4th was released in April, the article in March. But in fairness to yourself there were also 2 patch releases you didn't count.