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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: 0.432s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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emigre ◴[12 Oct 25 08:58 UTC] No.45556617[source]▶
The Atom code editor. It was good to have a mainstream alternative to VS Code, it's a pity it reached end-of-life.
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1. latexr ◴[12 Oct 25 14:48 UTC] No.45558598[source]▶
Atom was by GitHub, and VS Code by Microsoft. As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code, Atom’s fate was sealed.
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2. latexr ◴[13 Oct 25 08:57 UTC] No.45566277[source]▶
> As soon as Microsoft bought VS Code

Correction: I meant “As soon as Microsoft bought GitHub”.