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Haskell2018–2024
kitlang / kit

kit

Kit: a magical, high performance programming language, designed for game development.

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
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What it is

Kit: a magical, high performance programming language, designed for game development.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-09-13 21:16:42 UTC to 2024-01-02 02:16:10 UTC.

012342018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 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 comments20212022-01-01 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
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 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I don't know about a list online but here's what I know off, in the C/C++ realm Odin - https://odin-lang.org/ Zig - https://ziglang.org/ Beef - https://www.beeflang.org/ Jai (not public yet) - [1] Carbon (C++) - https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang D Lang - https://dlang.org/ Rust - https://www.rust-lang.org/ cppfront (Herb Sutter's C++ frontend/syntax) - https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront Nim - https://nim-lang.org/ Crystal (not sure if this counts) - https://crystal-lang.org/ Vale - https://vale.dev/ Hylo (formerly Val, just found it now) - https://www.hylo-lang.org/ Vala (compiles to C, some GTK apps are written in this) - https://vala.dev/ C3 - https://github.com/c3lang/c3c Rune (last commit 7 months ago) - https://github.com/google/rune Kit (dead, last commit 5 years ago) - https://github.com/kitlang/kit There's probably m
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ore. That's all I can recall off the top of my head and/or what I have in my notes. There's also Haskell [2], which compiles down to C-- [3] (a C like language). Not sure if this counts either. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow#2017%E2%80%93pre... [2]: https://www.haskell.org/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C--
In Odin Programming Language

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