Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAwk is cool. It's a full-fledged programming language that's there in anything remotely unix-flavored, but I mostly see it used in one-liners to grab bits of text from piped stdout. But you can use awk as a general-purpose scripting language [1], in many ways it's nicer than bash for this purpose. I wonder why you don't see more awk scripts in the wild. I suppose perl came along and tried to combine the good features of shell, awk, and sed…
Namespaces (GNU Awk 5.0+) make Awk pretty well suited for larger projects (as demonstrated by aho), but it never quite took off; this article (by the author of GoAwk[1]) is a nice look at the relevance of Awk in 2020: https://lwn.net/Articles/820829/ [1]: https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 553
- Total comments
- 222
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-06 | A Git Implementation in AwkFirst breakout | rohitpaulk | 271 | 93 |
| 2024-02-10 | A Git implementation in AWK (2021) | benhoyt | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-02-10 | Aho – a Git implementation in AwkBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | pabs3 | 279 | 129 |