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

358 points ofalkaed | 3 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.461s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. holysantamaria ◴[11 Oct 25 23:34 UTC] No.45553715[source]▶
Opa language 2012, it was a typed nextjs before its time.

http://opalang.org/

I think the market was still skeptical about nodejs on the server at the time but other than that I don’t really know why it didn’t take off

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2. daxfohl ◴[11 Oct 25 23:53 UTC] No.45553837[source]▶
I came to say Opa too. I liked the language but the meteor-like framework it was bundled with, while nice for prototyping, was a pain to work around when it didn't do what you needed.

That said, frameworks were all the buzz back in the day, so the language alone probably wouldn't have gone anywhere without it.

3. themerone ◴[12 Oct 25 04:38 UTC] No.45555270[source]▶
Launching under AGPL was the kiss of death. They eventually went MIT, but the developers it steered away, probably never gave it a second chance