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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: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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speed_spread ◴[12 Oct 25 07:48 UTC] No.45556188[source]▶
Ceylon, JVM language, developed by Red Hat, now abandoned at Eclipse. Lost the race with Kotlin but proposed more than just syntax sugar over Java. Anonymous union types, comprehensions, proper module system...
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1. jfadfwddas ◴[12 Oct 25 17:11 UTC] No.45559844[source]▶
I really liked Ceylon. It was competing against Groovy, Kotlin, and Scala which all seemed to come out around the same time.