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Ask HN: Has Tim Berners-Lee's 'Solid' Died on the Vine?
https://github.com/solid
Only 7K stars on github and even the MIT site's ssl certificate has expired. I suspect it's dead.
Anyone have some insight into what's going on?
- detaro 8y agoI doubt it's dead (various GH repos show some stuff that wasn't there as far as I remember), but it's a small, somewhat academic, project that got hyped a lot really early because it's attached to TBL. As nearly any open-source project in that space can attest to, things take time (really the only exception in somewhat recent time might be Mastodon?)
- jammygit 8y agoHas anyone used it for something? I've heard about it a fair bit, but never of somebody claiming to use it in production
- wrnr 8y agoMy startup is developing a product that uses semantic technology (graph databases and rest apis) and though it doesn't use solid directly it does influence our thinking on product design. Can't give much more details ATM, but rest assured there are still some believers ;)
- Mitzi_Laszlo 8y ago@canada_dry You can read about Solid on https://solid.inrupt.com https://solid.inrupt.com and join the conversation on https://www.w3.org/community/solid/ https://www.w3.org/community/solid/