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

358 points ofalkaed | 3 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.637s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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Havoc ◴[12 Oct 25 09:40 UTC] No.45556825[source]▶
Pascal/Delphi - especially in the educational context.

Crazy fast compiler so doesn't frustrate trial & erroring students, decent type system without the wildness of say rust and all the basic programming building blocks you want students to grasp are present without language specific funkiness.

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1. chadcmulligan ◴[12 Oct 25 12:44 UTC] No.45557851[source]▶
Delphi isn't dead - ver 13 was recently released - https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi. It's even cross platform, uses Skia as its graphics engine, its all very nice.
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2. sph ◴[12 Oct 25 18:32 UTC] No.45560543[source]▶
Delphi is like jazz - not dead, but it just smells funny.
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3. chadcmulligan ◴[13 Oct 25 02:43 UTC] No.45564220[source]▶
I'll take the like Jazz part