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Milpotel
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Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
The opposite is true: there are a lot of projects that failed because of the chosen language.
OnionBlender
8 days ago
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What are some famous examples?
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Milpotel
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Eclipse, Azureus, Minecraft, MySpace with ColdFusion, OpenOffice's Java parts...
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DANmode
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These are the failed projects?!
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Milpotel
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These are the "famous" failed projects. All of them lost most of their user base or required a rewrite or lost to a faster competitor.
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metaltyphoon
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> Minecraft
Typo?
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Milpotel
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Why? It's horrendously slow thanks to the wrong language choice and also required a rewrite (bedrock).
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