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 orderInteresting how any company with enough C++ developers will eventually develop a huge library like that (with data structures and tools and system wrappers). In the JS ecosystem, we may complain that node_modules is large, but at least we are not reimplementing and rewrapping the wheel at every corp (same for python). Maybe if C++ had a standard package manager, people would stop coding huge libraries like that, focusing on smaller libraries that can be reused (independently).
Not the OP, but active user and contributor to folly, so I can add some context. folly is a community effort within Meta; it doesn't have a specific theme about what's included in it, but it is a set of core libraries that are likely to be depended on by most C++ software within the company, and are enough high-quality and self-contained that they can be useful externally, or showcase implementations undergoing standardization efforts (for example experimental/coro for coroutines). Main…
An overview list on what it offers: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/docs/Ove...
opensourced at facebook c++ conference today. talk about fbstring here: http://ramisayar.com/fb-cpp-conf/
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
- 216
- Total comments
- 172
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-02 | Fbstring open-sourced | ramisayar | 4 | 1 |
| 2016-02-03 | Folly C++11 libaray | autoreleasepool | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-01 | Folly: An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook | federicoponzi | 4 | 1 |
| 2020-04-15 | Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ libraryFirst breakout · Best thread | crakenzak | 110 | 87 |
| 2022-01-07 | Folly: An open-source C++ library developed and used at FacebookLatest 20+ point return | u1tron | 95 | 83 |
| 2024-07-24 | Folly: An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook | tosh | 1 | 0 |