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 orderI love seeing new languages targeting the Lua runtime. I've been adding Lua scripting support to pretty much everything I make now. I recently made my SSE server programmable with Lua and it's extended the functionality far beyond what I would have had the patience and time to do myself. Highly recommend Lua with mlua-rs Rust bindings. [0] https://tinysse.com [1] https://github.com/benwilber/tinysse [2] https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua
I always say this when it comes up but fennel is very very impressive as a language project. Lua is much beloved but my professional experience is that working with it gets gnarly much faster than most other languages. Fennel focuses on a small set of the worst lua issues and addresses them without getting distracted or bogged down in language design extravagances or lisp nerd semiotics. The decision to strictly adhere to lua runtime semantics was initially repulsive to…
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
- 519
- Total comments
- 265
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-26 | The Fennel programming language: rationale | todsacerdoti | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-09-13 | Why Fennel?First breakout | hk__2 | 238 | 102 |
| 2025-04-13 | Why Fennel?Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | behnamoh | 277 | 163 |