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It's very, very much active. It's used heavily at Google in apps, Chrome, YouTube, Waymo, etc., and by companies like Microsoft, GitHub, Netflix, IBM, Adobe, Maersk, SAP, Apple...

One big difference to the projects you listed is that lit-html doesn't require a compiler. It's plain JS, and is fast because it uses template literals and built-in HTML parsing/cloning to associate expressions with DOM.

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A late response, but I can add a bit more motivation.

Without lit-html Starboard would be nowhere near as flexible or elegant. Starboard has to be completely customizable at runtime, that would probably be difficult to achieve with anything that has a build step, with lit-html it's "just Javascript" all the way down.

If you usually use a framework like React, Vue or Svelte it is still worth trying out lit-html, they are not mutually exclusive, it's simple to learn and deceptively powerful. It's great to have it on your toolbelt.

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