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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
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Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#893CLPM, the Common Lisp Package Manager. The Quicklisp client doesn't do HTTPS, ql-https doesn't do Ultralisp, and OCICL (which I'm currently using) doesn't do system-wide packages. CLPM is a great project, but it's gone neglected long enough that it's bitrotted and needs some thorough patching to be made usable. Fortunately Common Lisp is still as stable as it has been for 31 years, so it's just the code which interac…
ocicl does do system-wide packages!
I'm going to have to re-read the documentation, then. Thanks for the heads up!
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#894ReactOS, the effort to create a free and open source Windows NT reimplementation. It has been in existence in some form or another for nearly 30 years, but did not gain the traction it needed and as of writing it's still not in a usable state on real hardware. It's not abandoned, but progress on it is moving so slow that I doubt we'll ever see it be released in a state that's useful for real users. It's too bad, beca…
> I think people underestimate the difficulty involved in the project I don't think people do, it sounds like a nearly impossible struggle, and at the end you get a Windows clone. I can't imagine hating yourself enough to work on it for an extended period of time for no money and putting yourself and your hard work in legal risk. It's a miracle we have Wine and serious luck that we have Proton. People losing Windows…
Having dabbled in kernel development a bit, this is very true. It's an absolute nightmare.
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#895Lytro light field cameras. The tech was impressive and the company was able to put two products on to the shelves, though unfortunately they hadn't quite reached the image quality needed for professional photographers. But now with the new Meta Ray-Bans featuring a light field display and with new media like gaussian splats we're on the verge of being able to make full usage of all the data those cameras were able ca…
Their Cinema camera was so far ahead of it's time there still isn't anything that comes close to it's specs. It's like it's from another universe.
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#896OS/2 my beloved.
Still around, kinda: https://www.arcanoae.com/
Runs on modern Intel/AMD CPUs, but limited to 32-bit and low RAM limits. The OS/2 source is owned by IBM and IBM won't talk to you unless a number with 8 zeroes is involved.
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#897Flickr - that was the future of photo storage, sharing, discovery. What was the bookmarks social tool called from 00’s? I loved it and it fell off the earth. You could save your bookmarks, “publish” them to the community, share etc.. What ever happened to those build your own homepage apps like startpage (I think)? I always thought those would take off
I do miss Flickr good times... I still cannot find anything like this.
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#898Midori, Microsoft's capability-based security OS[1]. Rumor has it that it was getting to the point where it was able to run Windows code, so it was killed through internal politics, but who knows! It was the Fuchsia of its time... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29
> Microsoft's capability-based security
Seeing "Microsoft" and "security" in the same sentence makes me suspicious. /s
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#899Skype ; Because my R.I.P. grandma was using it to talk to her relatives overseas just like she would use a phone, but it didn't cost an arm and a leg (unlike phone calls).
One of the best P2P software at the time. It was so simple and effective and allowed people to call real phones with Skype credit. A genius product ripped my Microsoft. Have you used Microsoft Teams recently? Bad UI, hard to configure external hardware and good level of incompatibility, missing the good old "Echo / Sound Test Service". At a point I even installed Skype of my old Android but was sucking up too much ba…
> One of the best P2P software at the time.
and, after it was bought by Microsoft, the best spyware at the time. When it was running, the harddrive LED will be always on, just like network activity.
Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
#900Earlier quoted context omitted.
you still have Lazarus, "a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development."
Lazarus is nice but both its apis and the ui feel like they're still stuck in the early 00's. It's not enough to look like VB6 / Delphi these days; you've got to keep up with what kinds of conventions we expect now.
> the ui feel like they're still stuck in the early 00's.
As a masochistic user of Windows (Work), Android (phone) and iOS (work phone), i consider this a feature.
Window management in Windows, can be the subject of a Nobel prize winning novel.