Totally fair — longevity is a real concern, and I’ve had the same hesitation with new tools myself.

The nice thing about Dagger.js is that it’s intentionally very small and HTML-first. If the project disappeared tomorrow, your markup is still just plain HTML + attributes, and your components are still standard Web Components. There’s very little “lock-in” compared to bigger frameworks with proprietary syntax or build pipelines.

That said, I do intend to keep it alive — it’s under active development on GitHub, MIT licensed, and easy for others to fork or extend. If a year from now it still looks useful, I’d be glad for you (and others) to take another look.:)