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Unison Programming Language

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
7
submitters
7
observed span
2015–2021
peak thread · 141 comments
410 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-06-27
410 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One 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.

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I had a really hard time wrapping my mind around this just reading the website alone. If you are in the same boat, watch the first 10 minutes of this video at 1.5x speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWtkvDQ2ZI and it will make so, so much more sense. ...and if you are like me you'll probably need to read this twitter thread to get the answer to your #1 question: https://twitter.com/unisonweb/status/1173942974381744134 Basically the core idea (or one of the core ideas) is instead of…

umvi·410-point thread·

One thing that takes away from programming languages is not having code samples on the index. I think this lets someone know immediately if it's interesting to them or not. Show a sample of code with the console output or a screenshot of an UI from the code. I think Racket had it right ages back. They would show everything from a web server, to other things. This is what major programming languages (with some exceptions) basically do and it…

From the about section: "Unison is a new programming platform that rethinks just about every aspect of the programming experience." Haskell + Semantic editing + Collaborative editing + Distributed ... Organised links about the project by the author: http://pchiusano.github.io/unison/

bandris·2-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
682

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Total comments
273

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2015-09-24Unison: a next-generation programming platformsabalaba40
2016-05-02Unisonbandris21
2016-10-13Next generation programming platform, currently in development0xmohit10
2019-10-01The Unison Languageexplodingcamera20
2019-10-12Unison Languagexfer10
2020-01-10The Unison languageFirst breakoutocfnash262141
2021-06-27Unison Programming LanguageBest thread · Latest 20+ point returngautamcgoel410131