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obsidiansystems
obelisk
Haskell2018–2025
obsidiansystems / obelisk

obelisk

Functional reactive web and mobile applications, with batteries included.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Functional reactive web and mobile applications, with batteries included.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Sure. So I've spent a lot of time working with FRP things, e.g. with https://hackage.haskell.org/package/reflex with the github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk/ web framework.…

Ericson2314 used a recommendation phrase. 2 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-06-06 03:27:53 UTC to 2025-12-29 22:27:54 UTC.

012342018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Ericson2314·Aug 17, 2019Recommendation phrase
The "we" is I work at the company founded by the creator of reflex. I have no idea what is a good Beginning Haskell resource, honestly. I don't really remember but I think I mainly googled random bits of information on an as-needed / as-curious basis. Most people use reflex for writing web frontends, and for that we have the very "batteries included" https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk/ . If you want to dive into a well-blazed trail, I recommend that.
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