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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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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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znpy ◴[12 Oct 25 08:44 UTC] No.45556523[source]▶
Looking at firefox memory usage, i’m afraid the issue there is not memory safety but rather the average javascript developer being completely and blissfully unaware of and careless about memory memory usage of the software they write
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1. cube00 ◴[13 Oct 25 10:30 UTC] No.45566827[source]▶
It'd be interesting to understand how much of that memory pressure is down to the devs compared with the frameworks now trying to cache everything in sight.

React Compiler automatically memoizes values and functions, reducing the need for manual useMemo calls. You can use the compiler to handle memoization automatically.

https://react.dev/reference/react/useMemo