[johntdaly]

Is the App an old POS? I see a lot of old Java Apps still around that sort of bitrotted to hell. We bitched so much about Java Apps that so many just got abandoned, even if the apps where sort of cool and/or didn’t have a replacement.

Maybe I’m getting old but I’m a bit sad for all the open source apps that where abandoned over the years because the tech stack stopped being cool.

[kaba0]

Anecdotal, but Java is the only platform where I could download a random jar from a possibly long dead professor’s abandoned website and have a working GUI of some CS algorithm visualization with a double-click.

Hell, websites don’t hold up as well to time with all the missing links/resources.