In fact yes. I‘d choose a maintained lesser library or an in-house implementation over an unmaintained one. This is also the main benefit of python, with its hu

In fact yes. I‘d choose a maintained lesser library or an in-house implementation over an unmaintained one. This is also the main benefit of python, with its huge standard lib that effectively gives some maintenance guarantees. To give you an example: XLSX parsing. For quite a while, the most performant library ‚xlrd‘ had a big scary unmaintained notice on GitHub, yet people kept recommending and using it, often unnoticed through pandas, because they don’t read docs. I‘d refuse to touch that and instead use openpyxl, and now newer xlrd releases have even completely removed xlsx support.