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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: 0.2s | 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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_bent ◴[12 Oct 25 13:57 UTC] No.45558261[source]▶
iirc Atom was the original Electron project. Eventually VS Code came along and took all the good ideas - the modularity through extensions, and Electron / web based cross platform, but made it really fast and added IDE like language support through LSP. Atom may be dead now, but the idea lives on in VS Code and the new project by the original developers of Atom: Zed
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latexr ◴[12 Oct 25 14:47 UTC] No.45558590[source]▶
> iirc Atom was the original Electron project.

Indeed (and the names are a clue). More specifically, Electron came out of the ideas in Atom, not the other way around.

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gimenete ◴[12 Oct 25 20:08 UTC] No.45561416[source]▶
Electron was originally named Atom Shell https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/

Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.

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1. latexr ◴[12 Oct 25 20:31 UTC] No.45561639[source]▶
You’re right, I misremembered that. Thank you for the correction.