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 orderAt first I was confused because the pitch seemed to be mainly about writing fast code with Lua. If that's what they're going for, then a comparison with LuaJIT is sorely missing. But it appears that what they're actually pitching is a simple and flexible code generation environment. It's a way to generate statically-typed code at runtime that targets LLVM but looks nicer than this: http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/docs/tutorial/JITTutorial2.html (C++ code that conjures up LLVM SSA IR directly). You could almost think…
Hi HN, I help maintain Terra, and also use it to build Regent, my distributed programming language[1]. A bit busy at the moment, but if you leave questions here I'll try to answer them (possibly in some hours). [1]: regent-lang.org
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
- 455
- Total comments
- 78
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-05-14 | Terra – a low-level counterpart to LuaFirst breakout · Best thread | eslaught | 289 | 46 |
| 2017-01-18 | Terra – A low-level counterpart to Lua | brakmic | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-11-17 | Terra: C-Like low level language with Lua-based metaprogramming | hasenj | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-05-30 | Terra: Low-level system programming language meta-programmed from LuaLatest 20+ point return | teleforce | 158 | 32 |
| 2024-11-05 | Terra: A low-level counterpart to Lua | luismedel | 3 | 0 |