This is something I see and feel often. If something is untouched, that doesn’t mean it’s broken or for that matter unmaintained. It can simply mean it was simp

This is something I see and feel often. If something is untouched, that doesn’t mean it’s broken or for that matter unmaintained. It can simply mean it was simply done correctly from the get go. Think of code as a formula, how many formulas are there that haven’t been touched in hundreds of years, due to the fact that they are correct. The desire for libraries that are constantly in flux stems from the “move fast and break things” mentality, mixed with the continuous flow of breakage in mutable languages. If you move slow and do things well, you can often build some reliable with a fraction of the effort.