Ask HN: What niche/forgotten technologies do you wish were more mainstream?

...Or you wish that we'd bring back or learn from more? There's a lot out there. Occasionally I bump into systems, languages, techniques, etc. that I haven't heard of, and which don't seem to be popular, for whatever reason. For example, how many people use Clean, the pure functional language? History is also littered with largely abandoned things like Prolog (which mostly survives in Erlang), Datalog, hierarchical databases, object databases, etc., some of which were experimental, others which were failed attempts at creating a shiny new thing. I suspect that while much of the abandoned tech would be hard/pointless to revive, there are ideas to learn from them. Then there are technologies that are keeping people and companies productive and successful, but since there's no hype surrounding them, and productive people prefer staying productive, the grapevine

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

atombender

Ended

2018

Source

hackernews