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

358 points ofalkaed | 2 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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thinkingemote ◴[12 Oct 25 08:12 UTC] No.45556330[source]▶
Positron - Firefox version of Electron. "Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko" https://github.com/mozilla/positron

This would have changed so much. Desktop apps powered by the engine of Firefox not Chrome.

Why? Not enough company buy in, not enough devs worked on it. Maybe developed before a major Firefox re-write?

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cube00 ◴[12 Oct 25 08:35 UTC] No.45556465[source]▶
With more of Firefox's rendering migrating to Rust, there's got to be a market for a memory safe alternative to Electron now.
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1. ivanjermakov ◴[12 Oct 25 09:19 UTC] No.45556731[source]▶
https://v2.tauri.app/start/
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2. cube00 ◴[12 Oct 25 12:36 UTC] No.45557783[source]▶
I referred to secure rendering.

Tauri apps take advantage of the web view already available on every user’s system. A Tauri app only contains the code and assets specific for that app and doesn’t need to bundle a browser engine with every app.

Rendering will still use Edge/Chromium on a generic Windows machine.