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

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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burnt-resistor ◴[12 Oct 25 03:24 UTC] No.45554923[source]▶
Fortress language. It suffered from being too Haskell-like in terms of too many, non-orthogonal features. Rust and Go applied lessons from it perhaps indirectly.
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1. cmrdporcupine ◴[12 Oct 25 05:40 UTC] No.45555575[source]▶
Fortress had great ideas, but I'd say the closest thing to in the real world now might be Julia.