Languages & runtimes

25 tools recommended in Hacker News comment threads, most-mentioned first.

Inform 7 ↗
A natural-language-style programming language for writing text adventures.
2 threads
Lean ↗
An interactive theorem prover and programming language used to formalize mathematical proofs.
2 threads
Lobster ↗
A high-level programming language by Wouter van Oortmerssen, focused on ease of use with good performance.
2 threads
Rust
A systems programming language with compile-time memory safety guarantees.
2 threads
Catala
A programming language for translating legal statutes into executable code.
1 thread
Coalton
A statically typed functional language embedded in Common Lisp.
1 thread
Djot ↗
A light markup syntax by John MacFarlane derived from CommonMark with simpler parsing.
1 thread
Elixir
A functional language on the Erlang VM.
1 thread
F#
A functional-first programming language on .NET.
1 thread
F*
A proof-oriented functional programming language with dependent types.
1 thread
Fil-C
A memory-safe implementation of C/C++ that compiles existing code with runtime safety checks.
1 thread
Futhark ↗
A purely functional, data-parallel array language that compiles to GPU and CPU code.
1 thread
Go
A compiled, garbage-collected language from Google with goroutines.
1 thread
Janet
A lightweight, embeddable Lisp-family language influenced by Clojure.
1 thread
March ↗
A new programming language with Claude skills for search, debugging and language rules.
1 thread
OCaml
A statically typed functional programming language with a garbage collector.
1 thread
Odin
A systems programming language with configurable allocators such as bump and scratch allocators.
1 thread
Prela ↗
A relational query language with simpler semantics than SQL.
1 thread
SixtyPical ↗
A 6502 assembly-like language with an effect system and flow typing.
1 thread
Spinel ↗
Matz's ahead-of-time compiler for a statically typed Ruby subset using RBS.
1 thread
TinyGo ↗
A Go compiler aimed at microcontrollers and WebAssembly.
1 thread
TruffleRuby
A high-performance Ruby implementation built on GraalVM.
1 thread
Typed Racket
A gradually typed dialect of Racket.
1 thread
Wiz ↗
A high-level assembly language targeting 8-bit and retro platforms.
1 thread
symbolasm ↗
A modern assembler syntax with C-like types and named variables mapping nearly 1:1 to instructions.
1 thread