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by doubletgl 2586 days ago
Terribly vague naming. As a non-native speaker I would've never guessed the purpose, and I've been in the English speaking tech sphere for many years. Does anybody actually say "this website will sunset in 5 years"?
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I've heard the term used for deprecation before, but not in a long time. I agree it's not great. At least they spelled it right, though!
Tech is never really deprecated; instead, like the setting sun, it simply departs to rise again another morning (when a web developer independently re-discovers it).
Some big companies do, but I never heard a startup use the term.