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by dgellow·9y ago·view on hn ↗
Edit: I just checked the meaning of 'died down' and it means 'to reduce in strength' not 'to become literally dead'. So, my comment isn't really a correct response to the parent but I keep it here.

Do you really think all those concepts died? IMO, they aren't dead, they have been assimilated. We learned from OO and it's now a tool you can use almost everywhere when you need it. But we also learned to not try to model everything in an OO paradigm.

You can say the same thing for your other examples. You have a phase where the concept/techno is being seen as the silver bullet that will save us all. That brings a lot of adoption. People do mistakes. We (hopefully) learn from them. The hype fades away, concepts are consolidated and assimilated in stable and mainstream tools.

But that takes time. And I'm not sure how things could work differently. Don't we need the hyper-hype phase to experiment and learn about the concept/tech?