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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[–] 10 points 2 days ago

The sun is setting, but it's not going to immediately become dark outside. The light from the sun still refracts even when you can no longer see it

It's not about the sun - the sun is the programming efforts, and they're moving on to somewhere else. It's about the light, the software that came from the sun, and it'll still exist but diminish naturally

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