I made this YouTube video the other day about how all code, eventually, is abandoned. It doesn't die, because it still exists, but it simply won't have people working on it anymore.

But there's one thing that can prevent it, the code can graduate! It can be that you had an idea so useful that another project, a much larger one, will grab it to run with it.

It's happened twice to me. A few widgets from wigglystuff just got ported to marimo just like how a few scikit-lego components (or at least their spirit) have found their way into scikit-learn.

I wish it could happen to more people because this kind of pollination across projects is exactly what keeps the creativity alive.