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People love to say this but rarely provide concrete examples. Google has a habit of discontinuing unsuccessful services, not technologies like SDKs or whole pro

by happa 6y ago

People love to say this but rarely provide concrete examples. Google has a habit of discontinuing unsuccessful services, not technologies like SDKs or whole programming languages.

NateEag 6y ago
Angular.js is currently causing problems for me, as it's going to be unsupported in about a year.
- fastball 6y ago
  https://angular.io/guide/upgrade https://angular.io/guide/upgrade
  - NateEag 6y ago
    The point is precisely that I have to do that. GP asked for evidence of Google abandoning things, and Angular.js is exactly that. Upgrading to an incompatible framework is not supporting the old one.
    - fastball 6y ago
      If you can "upgrade", then it's not incompatible. Every major revision of software has breaking changes (or as you call them, "incompatibilities"), some more than others (see Python 2 -> 3). That doesn't mean it's "abandoned". Google made major API changes and renamed it to better communicate that it's not some simple JS framework – calling that abandoned is disingenuous. It's only abandoned in-so-far as every old version of every software ever gets abandoned at some point.
      - NateEag 6y ago
        Excuse me, I used imprecise language. I cannot upgrade. I have to port, due to the backwards-incompatible changes. Those changes may well be for the better, but for those of us maintaining stable programs, porting means increasing risk of failure for no perceivable end user benefit. Microsoft is much better at supporting old tools and software, at least historically.
thekyle 6y ago
AngularJS
erichurkman 6y ago
Dated, but Google Gears?
aiyodev 6y ago
Hit me up on Google Wave and I'll explain it to you.
frabcus 6y ago
It makes me think of Google Web Toolkit. Not exactly abandoned - it seems to have been maintained for 10 years, although no stable release for the last couple of years. It does feel like it would have been a dead end to get into though. My worry with Flutter is the same - it won't get large enough adoption by other tech companies, and Google will move on to something else. I think it'll still hang out as open source project. But will it get the large investment to make improvements as the various OSs change over the long time?

by happa 6y ago

People love to say this but rarely provide concrete examples. Google has a habit of discontinuing unsuccessful services, not technologies like SDKs or whole programming languages.

NateEag 6y ago

Angular.js is currently causing problems for me, as it's going to be unsupported in about a year.

fastball 6y ago
https://angular.io/guide/upgrade https://angular.io/guide/upgrade
- NateEag 6y ago
  The point is precisely that I have to do that. GP asked for evidence of Google abandoning things, and Angular.js is exactly that. Upgrading to an incompatible framework is not supporting the old one.
  - fastball 6y ago
    If you can "upgrade", then it's not incompatible. Every major revision of software has breaking changes (or as you call them, "incompatibilities"), some more than others (see Python 2 -> 3). That doesn't mean it's "abandoned". Google made major API changes and renamed it to better communicate that it's not some simple JS framework – calling that abandoned is disingenuous. It's only abandoned in-so-far as every old version of every software ever gets abandoned at some point.
    - NateEag 6y ago
      Excuse me, I used imprecise language. I cannot upgrade. I have to port, due to the backwards-incompatible changes. Those changes may well be for the better, but for those of us maintaining stable programs, porting means increasing risk of failure for no perceivable end user benefit. Microsoft is much better at supporting old tools and software, at least historically.

thekyle 6y ago

AngularJS

erichurkman 6y ago

Dated, but Google Gears?

aiyodev 6y ago

Hit me up on Google Wave and I'll explain it to you.

frabcus 6y ago

It makes me think of Google Web Toolkit. Not exactly abandoned - it seems to have been maintained for 10 years, although no stable release for the last couple of years. It does feel like it would have been a dead end to get into though. My worry with Flutter is the same - it won't get large enough adoption by other tech companies, and Google will move on to something else. I think it'll still hang out as open source project. But will it get the large investment to make improvements as the various OSs change over the long time?