ALalbertzeyer·Aug 2, 2013Submission
Vinyl - MacOSX music player written in Clay programming language
1 points · Open discussionjckarter
Vinyl
C2013–2013
jckarter / Vinyl
Vinyl
Mac OS X music player + iTunes-like interface – iTunes-like crap
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
14GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Mac OS X music player + iTunes-like interface – iTunes-like crap
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
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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 6-hour interval2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2013-07-28 15:21:24 UTC to 2013-08-02 16:43:17 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 12:00 | 2013-07-28 12:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-28 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 28, 18:00 | 2013-07-28 18:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 29, 00:00 | 2013-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-29 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 29, 06:00 | 2013-07-29 06:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-29 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 29, 12:00 | 2013-07-29 12:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-29 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 29, 18:00 | 2013-07-29 18:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30, 00:00 | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-30 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30, 06:00 | 2013-07-30 06:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-30 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30, 12:00 | 2013-07-30 12:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-30 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30, 18:00 | 2013-07-30 18:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 31, 00:00 | 2013-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-31 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 31, 06:00 | 2013-07-31 06:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-31 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 31, 12:00 | 2013-07-31 12:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-31 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 31, 18:00 | 2013-07-31 18:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1, 00:00 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1, 06:00 | 2013-08-01 06:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1, 12:00 | 2013-08-01 12:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1, 18:00 | 2013-08-01 18:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2, 00:00 | 2013-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-02 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2, 06:00 | 2013-08-02 06:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-02 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2, 12:00 | 2013-08-02 12:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-02 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesSince the website is pretty bad at giving you a high-level overview, here are two projects using it:
- https://github.com/jckarter/Vinyl
- https://github.com/Blei/claytracks
I don't see anything here that would make me consider this over Go, though. Languages are rarely chosen based on their designs alone. Go is about as bleeding edge as I can get away with in my job.
A big problem is lack of good, built in UTF-8 support. But the no garbage collection thing is interesting as I didn't spot any explicit allocs or frees anywhere when I skimmed.
In Clay – A language designed for generic programming