Re Facebook shutting down Parse
Thursday, January 28, 2016 by Dave Winer

My guess is that Facebook wouldn't shut down Parse if there had been a lot of uptake with devs. 

I never considered using it in my own work.

Here's a list of the toolkits I use in my JavaScript work.

I am very conservative in what I will build on, for the very reason that corporate platforms like Parse are subject to the needs of the companies that own them.