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Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by throwawaysfdc on Friday May 06, 2022 @11:53PM (#31292025)
Periwinkle never materialized. Neither did Shinrai, or a number of other projects that people brought up in hn threads about this incident. It’s clear that Heroku has lost a ton of great talent and momentum due to questionable business decisions but some of the most controversial fail to ever make it past codename status.
Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by hthrowaway3 on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:40AM (#31292190)
It's on ice. As you say it's also not the first time they've attempted something like this.

Eventually they'll get there, but customers should know that's the direction. They'll be users of "Compute Cloud" writing APEX instead of Procfiles someday.

Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by Mandatum on Sunday May 08, 2022 @08:09PM (#31309208)
Remember when Salesforce was moving off of Oracle within 2 years? A decade ago..
Re:Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback by rhizome on Friday May 13, 2022 @10:53PM (#31374697)
I wouldn't be surprised if Larry got them CIA/gov't contracts to avoid anything like that happening.