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by OnionBlender 198 days ago
What are some famous examples?
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Eclipse, Azureus, Minecraft, MySpace with ColdFusion, OpenOffice's Java parts...
These are the failed projects?!
These are the "famous" failed projects. All of them lost most of their user base or required a rewrite or lost to a faster competitor.
> Minecraft

Typo?

Why? It's horrendously slow thanks to the wrong language choice and also required a rewrite (bedrock).