Building on GraphView - is it safe?

Unity Engine
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I realize the name “Experimental” should give it away, but if someone could clarify…

Is it safe to build a node system using the API that resides in UnityEditor.Experimental.Graphview, or will I be building a system that may possibly break in later versions? Last time I lost work on custom utiliy I had built for the ShaderGraph since its API was made private, so I’m voicing a concern before diving into this system. Most of all I’m worried for the removal of the API from the public domain, rather than some things changing here and there.

EDIT: I read here GraphView official support ,
that there’s very little risk of it going private, so all’s good I guess!

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If you really want to be sure, you could always copy the implementation from our C# Reference:

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This is off-topic, but I decided to check out the repo because I was curious how the EdgeControl worked internally, and I noticed that you guys have an unused reference.

Mesh m_Mesh; is declared, and never set, but it is destroyed in OnLeavePanel().

        void OnLeavePanel(DetachFromPanelEvent e)
        {
            if (m_Mesh != null)
            {
                UnityEngine.Object.DestroyImmediate(m_Mesh);
                m_Mesh = null;
            }
        }

I was unable to find any other reference to m_Mesh in EdgeControl.cs.

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Doesn’t this actually violate the “Reference Only” license, as the code is only meant to be used as a reference, and not to be embedded in our own code? The license even says