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 orderWe've been using Jsonnet to generate Pods for our complex DAGs at Opsgenie, wrote a similar one using Tekton: https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2020-04-26-using-jsonnet-to-ge... But if I was doing it again now, I would just use https://cuelang.org/ or https://dagger.io Jsonnet is really hard to debug.
> JSON + Variables, Conditionals, Arithmetic, Functions, Imports, Error Propagation Is this going full circle then? JS -> JSON -> JS. More seriously and like someone already said, to many brackets and quotes for rapid prototyping.
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
- 245
- Total comments
- 148
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-26 | Jsonnet (by Google) – A DSL for JSON Configuration Data | nikolay | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-05-24 | Jsonnet – The data templating language | sciurus | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-06-21 | Jsonnet – A data templating languageFirst breakout | galfarragem | 116 | 55 |
| 2018-06-22 | Jsonnet: a data templating language | fanf2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-02-04 | Jsonnet – data templating language for app and tool developers | simonpure | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-12-19 | Jsonnet – A Data Templating Language | gjvc | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-03-27 | Jsonnet – The Data Templating LanguageBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tomas789 | 118 | 93 |