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 have my qualms with Janet. Mostly, it's lack of package management versioning and lack of libraries in general (advanced HTTP routing, etc). I do LOVE that Janet can create binaries with JPM, scripts, and is very portable. I once put the Janet programming language on the Playdate game console as POC. I actually do enjoy writing Janet, but every time I do people think I created the language (I did not).
The discursion on macros is interesting reading: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/the-problem-with-ma.... But it stops at Scheme’s hygienic macros, which address the very problem raised at the beginning of the discussion, in more or less the way Janet seems to work: https://legacy.cs.indiana.edu/ftp/techreports/TR356.pdf (page 4). The issue is not so much that macros are not merely syntactic transformations, but rather than s-expressions alone aren’t sufficiently expressive to represent the syntax of any…
Discussion about a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42253241
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
- 895
- Total comments
- 406
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-12 | Why Janet?First breakout | ianthehenry | 405 | 135 |
| 2025-01-11 | Why Janet? | andsoitis | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-06-02 | Why Janet?Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | yacin | 489 | 269 |