The app dev undead: 5 technologies limping along

Sometimes, technologies are introduced to great fanfare and then, well, fizzle.

For whatever reasons, they do not gain much momentum or get displaced by a theoretically better successor. Not all are inferior tools -- in fact, they may even be superior to what was already available. However, superiority and innovation don't always translate to successful adoption, though some establish cult followings.

The year, we've seen five such technologies aimed at developers fail to live up to their initial promise and thus fade away.

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