[throwawaysfdc]

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.

[hthrowaway3]

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.

[Mandatum]

Remember when Salesforce was moving off of Oracle within 2 years? A decade ago..

[rhizome]

I wouldn't be surprised if Larry got them CIA/gov't contracts to avoid anything like that happening.