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 order> Garbage collection is currently only supported on ARM microcontrollers (Cortex-M). For this platform, a simple conservative mark-sweep collector has been implemented. Other platforms will just allocate memory without ever freeing it. Conservative garbage collection has serious problems on 32-bit. Stuck pointers happen quite often. The usual culprit is floats, which thankfully don't usually appear in embedded code, but by no means is the problem limited to floats.
Tinygo made a lot of progress over the years -- e.g. they've recently introduced macOS support! It does indeed produce much smaller binaries, including for macOS. yuriy@MacBookAir ~/t/tinygo> time tinygo build -o test-tiny main.go ________________________________________________________ Executed in 1.06 secs fish external usr time 1.18 secs 0.31 millis 1.18 secs sys time 0.18 secs 1.50 millis 0.18 secs yuriy@MacBookAir ~/t/tinygo> time go build -o test-normal main.go…
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
- 503
- Total comments
- 91
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-07 | TinyGo – Go on Microcontrollers and WASM | rbanffy | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-07-18 | TinyGo: New Go Compiler Based on LLVMFirst breakout · Best thread | dcu | 293 | 51 |
| 2024-06-30 | TinyGo – A Go Compiler for Small Places | mroche | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-04-03 | Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssemblyLatest 20+ point return | uticus | 206 | 40 |