This is reminiscent of gmail staying in "beta" for 5 years and having acquired 10 million users. > And before anyone claims one shouldn't use stuff on versions

This is reminiscent of gmail staying in "beta" for 5 years and having acquired 10 million users. > And before anyone claims one shouldn't use stuff on versions below 1.0, consider that very popular projects like React were widely deployed in production before they decided to bump themselves out of 0.x... I agree. It's pretty easy to advise people not to use library with low version numbers, but then what do you use instead? Not every ecosystem out there has libraries for all common task, and if you need to, say, fill out a PDF form in language $X, and your choice is either a v0.5.22 library or writing it from scratch, I know I'd go for the v0.5.22... (especially with deadlines looming, and me having other things to do than reinvent the wheel).