358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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Opa language 2012, it was a typed nextjs before its time.

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

1. 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

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