[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died befor...
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       Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time
       and why?
        
       Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop
       something new based on its ideas.
        
       Author : ofalkaed
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2025-10-11 22:16 UTC (44 minutes ago)
        
       | snovymgodym wrote:
       | ReactOS, 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, because a drop in Windows replacement would be nice
       | for all the people losing Windows 10 support right now.
       | 
       | On the other hand, I think people underestimate the difficulty
       | involved in the project and compare it unfavorably to Linux, BSD,
       | etc. Unix and its source code was pretty well publicly documented
       | and understood for decades before those projects started, nothing
       | like that ever really existed for Windows.
        
         | Analemma_ wrote:
         | Wine, Proton and virtualization all got good enough that
         | there's no need for a half-baked binary-compatible Windows
         | reimplementation, and I think that took a lot of the oxygen out
         | of what could have been energy towards ReactOS. It's a cool
         | concept but not really a thing anybody requires.
        
       | gmuslera wrote:
       | Maemo/Meego. I know there is Sailfish still around, but things
       | would had been very different today if Nokia had put all its
       | weight on it back then.
        
       | bad_haircut72 wrote:
       | Riak
        
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