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Shaft
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Shaft

A native, performant, memory safe programming language without using lifetime annotations or implicit ownership rules, while trying to stay clean and nice to read, write and learn.

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What it is

A native, performant, memory safe programming language without using lifetime annotations or implicit ownership rules, while trying to stay clean and nice to read, write and learn.

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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.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-09-05 16:43:58 UTC to 2026-09-14 13:45:16 UTC.

012026-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 52026-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 92026-09-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 14

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
Sep 52026-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-06 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 62026-09-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 72026-09-07 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 82026-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 92026-09-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 102026-09-10 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-11 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 112026-09-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 122026-09-12 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC110
Sep 132026-09-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 142026-09-14 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-15 00:00:00 UTC110

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