> A good working library will continue to be a good working library until you break it. This isn't necessarily true, it depends on what the library is targetin

> A good working library will continue to be a good working library until you break it. This isn't necessarily true, it depends on what the library is targeting. Sure, you could try to use a libcurl 7.9 from 2001 but there's going to be security bugs abound and it's going to be a pain to send verbs like PUT that some APIs expect. Standards, security concerns and paradigms change over time and can easily break good working libraries that are unmaintained. However, things like a json parser and writer are relatively stable and don't need many changes over time because of the stability of the format.