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Ask HN: Which app or tool (no longer existing/discontinued) do you miss most?
Hey HN!
Which app or tool (if any!) that is no longer developed or supported — or perhaps so far from mainstream that it’s practically dead — you used to use a lot, like a lot and now miss a lot? Can be pro or personal. Feel free to share more than one, if you like.
I remember that I was pretty sad when Macromedia (later Adobe) Fireworks stopped being developed. I always liked it better than Ps. But that was "a while" ago and right now we have far better tools, like Figma.
Does our industry leave any space for tech-nostalgia at all? Or is the current toolstack just better in every respect?
Thanks for any comment. :-)
- PaulHoule 4y agoFreebase.
- mindcrime 4y agoBorland Turbo C++ Google Reader G+ Google Wave OS/2 Warp
- leszekzawadzki 4y agoThank you! Google Wave would be on my list too! Very interesting concept. I was surprised it didn't make it. :-)
- Bostonian 4y agoG95 was an open-source Fortran 95 compiler primarily developed by Andy Vaught. Now I happily use GNU Fortran aka gfortran, part of gcc, which is actively developed and supports later Fortran standards, but I miss g95, which had fast compile speeds and good error messages.
- rurban 4y agoditto for GNU Pascal. A safe systems language. I tried to merge in gpc patches, but was not successful so far.
- leszekzawadzki 4y agoThanks for the details!
- egfx 4y agotrueSpace my first love https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSpace https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSpace
- cc101 4y agoApple's HyperCard.
- jbn 4y agomultivalent PDF tools from http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/