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A programming language for the realtime web.

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What it is

A programming language for the realtime web.

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-08-09 19:52:55 UTC to 2011-03-02 22:36:20 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122010-08-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsAug 92010-08-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-08-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-08-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-08-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-09-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-09-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 152010-11-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-11-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-11-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 28

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
Aug 92010-08-09 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-16 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 162010-08-16 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 232010-08-23 00:00:00 UTC2010-08-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 302010-08-30 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 62010-09-06 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 132010-09-13 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 202010-09-20 00:00:00 UTC2010-09-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 272010-09-27 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 42010-10-04 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 112010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 182010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 252010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 12010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 82010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 152010-11-15 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 222010-11-22 00:00:00 UTC2010-11-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 292010-11-29 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 62010-12-06 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 132010-12-13 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 202010-12-20 00:00:00 UTC2010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 272010-12-27 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 32011-01-03 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 102011-01-10 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 172011-01-17 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 242011-01-24 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 312011-01-31 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 72011-02-07 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 142011-02-14 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 212011-02-21 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 282011-02-28 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-07 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Detrus·Mar 2, 2011
There are many many attempts at solving this problem, both libraries and preprocessors. None seem to satisfy a large audience, most people seem to deal with the callback nesting and hope to avoid cases where it gets super ugly. I have a lot bookmarked on github, these are mostly libraries. https://github.com/coolaj86/futures https://github.com/substack/node-seq https://github.com/marcuswestin/fun https://github.com/creationix/step https://github.com/chriso/chain.js https://github.com/substack/node-chainsaw https://github.com/caolan/async https://github.com/kriszyp/promised-io https://github.com/kriszyp/node-promise https://github.com/technoweenie/node-chain-gang https://github.com/creationix/do https://github.com/willconant/flow-js https://github.com/creationix/conductor Some branches of CoffeeScript are also trying to ease the pain. Defe
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r keyword didn't make it into CoffeeScript main. My impression is CoffeeScript makes callback hell less ugly anyway, so there is less need for adding a complex language feature that generates unreadable JavaScript.
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