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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 6 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source | bottom

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. exp1orer ◴[11 Oct 25 23:20 UTC] No.45553614[source]▶
It might be too soon to call it abandoned, but I was very intrigued by the Austral [1] language. The spec [2] is worth reading, it has an unusual clarity of thought and originality, and I was hoping that it would find some traction. Unfortunately it seems that the author is no longer actively working on it.

[1] https://austral-lang.org/ [2] https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html

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2. khaledh ◴[11 Oct 25 23:26 UTC] No.45553653[source]▶
Same with Vale: https://vale.dev
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3. ofalkaed ◴[11 Oct 25 23:42 UTC] No.45553772[source]▶
I played with Austral about a year ago and really wanted to use it for my projects, but as a hobbyist and mostly inept programmer it lacked the community and ecosystem I require. I found it almost intuitive and the spec does an amazing job of explaining the language. Would love to see it get a foothold.
4. alexeldeib ◴[12 Oct 25 00:48 UTC] No.45554104[source]▶
ouch, last “recent update” in 2023. Any idea what happened?
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5. valorzard ◴[12 Oct 25 03:30 UTC] No.45554965{3}[source]▶
The author got hired by Modular, the AI startup founded by the creators of LLVM and Swift, and is now working on the new language Mojo. He’s been bringing a bunch of ideas from Vale to Mojo
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6. alexeldeib ◴[12 Oct 25 04:43 UTC] No.45555296{4}[source]▶
Oh nice! I just had an excuse to try mojo via max inference, it was pretty impressive. Basically on par with vllm for some small benchmarks, bit of variance in ttft and tpot. Very cool!