HACKER Q&A
📣 leszekzawadzki

Which app or tool (no longer existing/discontinued) do you miss most?


Hey HN!

Which app or tool (if any!) that is no longer developed or supported — or perhaps so far from mainstream that it’s practically dead — you used to use a lot, like a lot and now miss a lot? Can be pro or personal. Feel free to share more than one, if you like.

I remember that I was pretty sad when Macromedia (later Adobe) Fireworks stopped being developed. I always liked it better than Ps. But that was "a while" ago and right now we have far better tools, like Figma.

Does our industry leave any space for tech-nostalgia at all? Or is the current toolstack just better in every respect?

Thanks for any comment. :-)


  👤 Bostonian Accepted Answer ✓
G95 was an open-source Fortran 95 compiler primarily developed by Andy Vaught. Now I happily use GNU Fortran aka gfortran, part of gcc, which is actively developed and supports later Fortran standards, but I miss g95, which had fast compile speeds and good error messages.

👤 mindcrime
Borland Turbo C++

Google Reader

G+

Google Wave

OS/2 Warp


👤 egfx

👤 jbn
multivalent PDF tools from http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/

👤 cc101
Apple's HyperCard.

👤 PaulHoule
Freebase.