After the sun sets it comes up the next morning, so saying someone is “sunsetting” something would be more of a long reboot than getting rid of the thing or shutting it down.
Why is this term used?
After the sun sets it comes up the next morning, so saying someone is “sunsetting” something would be more of a long reboot than getting rid of the thing or shutting it down.
Why is this term used?
Sunset is “no end date but we’re no longer maintaining or investing except hotfix.” That is, riding off into the sunset. An honorable retirement.
In contrast to EOL - “we are going to be/we have shut down as of 2030-01-01”.
Don’t get me started on deprecate vs depreciate.
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