Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was still here

Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by karmakaze on Sunday July 07, 2019 @05:34PM (#20378029)

Cross platform application development, aka Rich Internet Application (RIA): Adobe AIR, MS Silverlight, JavaFX.

Some of these continue to exist but seem to lack adoption and/or prominent support.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by thedevindevops on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:50AM (#20381907)

Can you elaborate on this a little bit, I'm curious as to what you miss about them

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by karmakaze on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:31AM (#20382125)

Portable efficient application development that is higher level than C and without the bloat and unnecessary abstraction of Electron.

Also a distribution model that isn't dependent on a third party's app store.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by thedevindevops on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:54AM (#20382282)

Would a Java app, suit your circumstances?

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by karmakaze on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:53AM (#20392346)

Close, but there's no distribution since WebStart was killed off (rightly so it had unending vulnerabilities).

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by ScottFree on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:47AM (#20392950)

> (rightly so it had unending vulnerabilities)

That's exactly why those technologies died off. Flash and Java have massive security issues that neither Adobe nor Oracle are capable of fixing.

That said, you should be pretty happy about WASM then.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by MH15 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:22AM (#20392002)

Can't you do nearly all of this with modern JavaScript?

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