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So the cool thing about this demo was that I remember when it was first submitted many years ago and thought it a cool demo that demonstrated the viability of Web3D which I expected to take off a lot quicker than it has.
But I also recently came across madebyevan.com again by accident after researching the backing of different npm projects to assess which ones had good momentum or commercial backing behind them to assess their long-term viability, and noticed a lot of npm projects (~2M weekly) relying on esbuild [1] as a fundamental part of their build system due to its amazing performance.
All good except that the foundational part of many npm projects feature is mostly being maintained by a single developer [2], a @evanw who was also prolific in responding to esbuild's issue catering for different peoples needs & feature requests. I didn't think this level of investment in a popular OSS project was sustainable and hoped they had good sponsorship behind them, but was surprised that @evanw [3] had no sponsorship option available which I thought strange as most authors of popular npm projects have good sponsorship, but upon further research it's because Evan Wallace is the CTO and cofounder of Figma - a popular company with ~10B valuation.
Which is great in that esbuild is at no risk of being sporadically abandoned from its lead developer joining a new/demanding startup, on the other hand a foundational project in npm's ecosystem is being developed in the spare time of a Co-founder & CTO of a ~10B Co - who also creates great demos :)
[1] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild
[2] https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/graphs/contributors
[3] https://github.com/evanw