Filemaker Pro. It is flexible and under-the-radar like Excel, so non-programmers can just get stuff done, but you wind up much less of a mess once it metastasiz

Filemaker Pro. It is flexible and under-the-radar like Excel, so non-programmers can just get stuff done, but you wind up much less of a mess once it metastasizes into a critical business tool. It even has a client-server mode so you have share-ability. Aldus PageMaker. This isn't going extinct---it's long dead. I did our college literary magazine with this, and it was so fluid. For professional work it lost to Quark, but it was so much better for ordinary people with small-to-medium projects. I've never seen anything like it since. Knockout. This is really nice technology: so much simpler than Angular or Ember, more like a library than a framework. Made to play nice with lots of other small JS tools. But last I checked the mapping plugin was abandoned and had no replacement. I would love to use this for my projects but feel like it would be a disservice to my clients.