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Carbon
PHP2014–2023
briannesbitt / Carbon

Carbon

A simple PHP API extension for DateTime.

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What it is

A simple PHP API extension for DateTime.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-02-08 17:38:36 UTC to 2023-06-17 18:00:41 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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culi·Jun 17, 2023
mentioned in this thread: C * Lua https://www.lua.org/source/ * Redis https://github.com/redis/redis (mentioned twice) * Ruby https://github.com/ruby/ruby * SQLite https://sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=trunk C++ * Botan https://github.com/randombit/botan * ClickHouse https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse Go * Go's standard library https://cs.opensource.google/go/go * HashiCorp repos, particular those by Mitchell https://github.com/hashicorp F# * jet.com repos https://github.com/jet?language=f%23 Haskell * Elm compiler https://github.com/elm/compiler Lisp * CL-PPCRE https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre/ * Mezzano USB driver https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/blob/master/drivers/usb/m... PHP * Carbon https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon * Laravel https://github.com/laravel/laravel Python * pytudes (notebooks) https://github.com/norvig/pytudes R *
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sf (ex of functional OOP) https://github.com/r-spatial/sf Ruby * Sequel https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/ * Sidekiq https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq Rust * ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep Scala * fs2 (ex of good type safety) https://github.com/typelevel/fs2 * monix (ex of ugly code with great performance) https://github.com/monix/monix TypeScript * GitHub Desktop (ex of SPA) https://github.com/desktop/desktop --- thanks to: cejast, bb86754, wewxjfq, antonyt, bit, diego_moita, agjmills, freedomben, Contortion, valenterry, DethNinja, mberning, seneca
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