So everyonene OK with saying sunsetting instead of shutting down now?.
Even though its clearly a corporate-speak?. Are we gonna be so easily manipulated?
This is the standard talk for any part of any program being shutdown (including internally among small engineering teams). Part of the difference is a "shutdown" can be a rough cut-off so people relying on the services don't have much help in the matter, sunsetting is a longer time period that allows you to transition out of using any services.
I'd prefer "deprecated" which is what the teams I've worked on used. That's an actual programming term as a bonus.
It being an actual programming term is a minus, nobody but computer needs knows what it means - trading one jargon for another jargon, just the one that you like.
I don't think it's corporate-speak. To my understanding the use of "sunset" as a verb comes from law where contracts and laws sometimes have "sunset clauses" ensuring they become defunct at a certain defined point in the future.
From there, "to sunset" something seems a fairly logical next step.
Umm, so it will come back up the next day?
This is very clever satire of the sad state of internet discourse, well done.