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 orderReminder the creator of Wren wrote the awesome Crafting Interpreters book [0]. [0] https://craftinginterpreters.com/
Wren seems like a really clean alternative to a language like Python, but it makes one mistake that really drives me nuts. In order to provide binary operators, you must implement a method on the left object. From the documentation [0]: > The left operand is the receiver, and the right operand gets passed to it. So a + b is semantically interpreted as “invoke the +(_) method on a, passing it b“. This means that if you want 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
- 345
- Total comments
- 118
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-12 | Wren – class-based concurrent scripting language | smaili | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-12-04 | Wren – a classy little scripting language | akalin | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-09-10 | Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language | fanf2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-07-25 | Wren – Scripting Language for C++ | bbmario | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-10-19 | Wren: A small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language | kick | 8 | 0 |
| 2019-10-28 | Wren: Class-based concurrent scripting language | bbmario | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-06-27 | Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting languageFirst breakout | jay_kyburz | 122 | 54 |
| 2021-11-22 | Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language | rdpintqogeogsaa | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-10-22 | Wren: A classy little scripting languageBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | Lyngbakr | 200 | 64 |