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?

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[–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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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