[maple3142]

To be honest, there are two ways to solve the problem of xkcd 2347, either putting efforts into the very small library or just stop depending on it. Both solutions are fine to me and Google apparent just choose the latter one here.

[bawolff]

If not depending on a library is an option, then you dont really have an xkcd 2347 problem. The entire point of that comic is that some undermaintained dependencies are critical, without reasonable alternatives.

[1718627440]

Except it's not Google whose "products" stop working by removing that dependency.