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facebookarchive / warp · Archived

warp

A fast preprocessor for C and C++

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16Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
528GitHub stars
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What it is

A fast preprocessor for C and C++

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year16 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-05-26 08:22:38 UTC to 2021-05-10 17:07:18 UTC.

012342014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 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): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021

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 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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arunc·Aug 5, 2016
Excellent work, perseverance proves! D is a very good language, avoiding most of the pitfalls of C++. I have wondered why D isn't picking up. Even Facebook has abandoned Warp [1]. Other than the lack of corporate backup, The complexity of the language gets out of hold as we move forward. DMD is the official compiler, but it doesn't optimize as much as LDC/GDC does. LDC/GDC is not available on the Enterprise platforms on which C++ is used (at least on the servers with RHEL/CentOS). There are 3 different compilers and the resource is not concentrated on improving just one. I agree that competition is good for health, but when things are not picking up why not focus the efforts on making the better the best (probably GDC/LDC)? Albeit few community members are very helpful and humble, personal attacks are a common thing in the forum. The foru
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m gives some hints [2], [3] [1] https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp [2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/vlosobeqnvfrfuriedpv@forum.dlang... [3] http://forum.dlang.org/post/hjaiavlfkoamenidomsa@forum.dlang...
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