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

358 points ofalkaed | 4 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.609s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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patapong ◴[12 Oct 25 04:54 UTC] No.45555348[source]▶
Visual Basic 6 - arguably the most accessible way of creating GUI apps.
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1. homarp ◴[12 Oct 25 06:23 UTC] No.45555769[source]▶
you still have Lazarus, "a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development."
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2. stavros ◴[12 Oct 25 08:39 UTC] No.45556492[source]▶
Lazarus seems like a fantastic GUI builder, but the problem with it (and VB6) is that I have to use a language with 0.01% the ecosystem of Python.
3. jamesu ◴[12 Oct 25 10:38 UTC] No.45557106[source]▶
Lazarus is nice but both its apis and the ui feel like they're still stuck in the early 00's. It's not enough to look like VB6 / Delphi these days; you've got to keep up with what kinds of conventions we expect now.
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4. hulitu ◴[16 Oct 25 16:18 UTC] No.45607310[source]▶
> the ui feel like they're still stuck in the early 00's.

As a masochistic user of Windows (Work), Android (phone) and iOS (work phone), i consider this a feature.

Window management in Windows, can be the subject of a Nobel prize winning novel.