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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: 0.001s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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hshdhdhehd ◴[12 Oct 25 06:19 UTC] No.45555738[source]▶
Elm programming language. Arguably not dead but somewhat incomplete and not actively worked on.
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zem ◴[12 Oct 25 07:27 UTC] No.45556066[source]▶
opa, along the same lines - really nice ML based language for isomorphic full stack web development.
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1. PufPufPuf ◴[12 Oct 25 08:03 UTC] No.45556270[source]▶
Yeah, Opa was wildly ahead of its time, I actually just wrote a top level comment about it. Basically Next.js+TypeScript+modern ECMAScript features, but in 2011.