Comment by pxtail

> why? Because someone somewhere has decided that I should move on to something newer and more exciting. But I don't want new and exciting... I want rock solid!

Well, it also could be because someone else decided to move on to something newer and more exciting instead of dutifully maintaining 10y old free software because someone WANTS to have peace of mind on their vacation.

People and companies don't want to pay for maintenance work. I think that this is actually the main reason for all of this complaints about perceived short longevity of libraries and languages. Unfortunately entropy is a bitch, one can put up colossal amount of work up front, pyramids amount of work equivalent but eventually decay will catch up.