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The Nature Programming Language

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The Nature Programming Language

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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 month10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-09-26 00:21:00 UTC to 2025-08-08 05:41:36 UTC.

0123452023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 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 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2025

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What Hacker News says

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weiwenhao·May 20, 2025Submission

Show HN: I built a programming language, inspired by Golang

Hello, I'm the author of the nature programming language, which has reached an early usable version since its first commit in 2021 until today. --- Why implement such a programming language? go is a programming language that I use for my daily work, and the first time I used golang, I was amazed by its simple syntax, freedom of programming ideas, ease of cross-compilation and deployment, excellent and high-performance runtime implementations, and advanced concurrency style design based on goroutine, etc. But, golang also has some inconveniences - The syntax is too concise, resulting in a lack of expressive power. - The type system is not perfect - Cumbersome error handling - The automatic GC and preemptive scheduling design is excellent, but it also limits the scope of go. - Package management - interface{} - ... nature is designed to be
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a continuation and improvement of the go programming language, and to pursue certain differences. While improving the above problems, nature has a runtime, a GMP model, an allocator, a collector, a coroutine, a channel, a std, and so on, which are similar to those of go, but more concise. And nature also does not rely on llvm, with efficient compilation speed, easy cross-compilation and deployment. Based on the features already implemented in the nature programming language, it is suitable for game engines and game development, scientific computing and AI, operating systems and the Internet of Things, the command line, and web development. When nature is fully featured and optimized, it is expected that nature will be able to replace golang in any scenario (converting to readable golang code, using nature with minimal trial-and-error costs, and switching back to golang at any time). And as a general-purpose programming language, nature can compete with any other programming language of its type. [Note that this is not yet complete.] --- I know, it's a little late, I spent too much time, just to bring another programming language, after all, the world is not short of programming languages. But when I really think about questions like "Should I continue? Can I do it well?", I realized I had already come a very, very long way. --- Feel free to give me feedback, I'll answer any questions you may have. Website: https://nature-lang.org The home page contains some examples of syntax features that you can try out in the playground. Get started: https://nature-lang.org/docs/get-started contains a tutorial on how to install the program and advice on how to use it. Syntax documentation: https://nature-lang.org/docs/syntax Playground: https://nature-lang.org/playground Try it online --- Contribution Guide https://nature-lang.org/docs/contribute I have documented how the nature programming language is implemented. nature has a proprietary compiler backend like golang, but the structure and implementation of the nature source code is very simple. This makes it easy and fun to contribute to the nature programming language. Instead of just a compiler frontend + llvm, you can participate in SSA, SIMD, register allocation, assembler, linker, and other fun tasks to validate your learning and ideas. You can express your ideas through github issues and I'll guide you through the contribution process. --- These are some of the smaller projects I've implemented with nature, and I really like the feel of writing code with nature. https://github.com/weiwenhao/parker Lightweight packaging tool https://github.com/weiwenhao/llama.n Llama2 nature language implementation https://github.com/weiwenhao/tetris Tetris implementation based on raylib, macos only https://github.com/weiwenhao/playground playground server api implementation --- Lastly, I'm looking for a job, so if you think this project is okay, I hope you'll give me a star, it would help me a lot
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This is the first-phase goal for the Nature programming language, as outlined in the first section of the README on https://github.com/nature-lang/nature. To summarize: - Type system, null safety, generics, and union types - An in-house compiler/assembler/linker that is not reliant on LLVM and supports compilation for amd64, riscv64, and wasm architectures - Non-intrusive interaction with C for efficient and high-performance development - Progressive Garbage Collection, supporting both automatic and manual GC - Built-in vec, map, set, and tup data structures - Package and module management - Function tags, closures, error prompts, runtime stack traces, and coroutines - Integrated SSA, linear scan register allocation, reflection, and an assembler & linker We anticipate that these key features will be completed around version 0.7.0, at whic
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h point a community-ready version will be released. By "community-ready," we mean that there will be stable and backward-compatible syntactic API support. https://nature-lang.org/docs/prologue/release-notes Record the core features that have not yet been completed in the version release notes.
In Nature: Programming language to experience the joy of programming
weiwenhao·Sep 26, 2023Submission

Show HN: Nature – Modern System-Level Programming Language and Compiler

This is an introduction to the "Nature" project: https://nature-lang.org/docs/getting-started/meet-nature I am the author of the Nature language, and today I have released the 0.4.0-beta version. For detailed updates, please see https://nature-lang.org/docs/prologue/release-notes Now, Nature can easily interact with C language. It is anticipated that in about six months, Nature will release a version available to the community. By then, there will be stable syntax API, a complete standard library, and support for development tools. Moreover, all the standard library code in Nature will be merged into the main repository. Contributions are welcome. If you want to follow the development of Nature more closely, you can 'watch' it on GitHub to keep up with the progress. I also hope to receive your 'star' support, as it will give me great moti
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