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pen-lang / pen

pen

The parallel, concurrent, and functional programming language for scalable software development

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
475GitHub stars
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What it is

The parallel, concurrent, and functional programming language for scalable software development

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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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

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Observed mentions: 2021-09-20 03:47:00 UTC to 2021-09-20 04:03:43 UTC.

012021-09-20 03:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-20 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20, 03:002021-09-20 04:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-20 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20, 04:00

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Sep 20, 03:002021-09-20 03:00:00 UTC2021-09-20 04:00:00 UTC110
Sep 20, 04:002021-09-20 04:00:00 UTC2021-09-20 05:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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TLDR: > Pen is a statically typed functional programming language for application programming with system injection. Its design is heavily inspired by the Go programming language and many functional programming languages like Haskell and Koka. ... Pen aims to be even simpler [than Go] by ... removing several features from Go like pointers, mutability, method syntax, global variables, circular references, etc. ... Pen's approach to that [maintenance] is embracing battle-tested ideas in such field [software engineering], such as Clean Architecture, into the language's principles and ecosystem. One of its most clear incarnations is system injection. System Injection: A mechanism to inject system functions into pure functions, eg a dynamically typed effect system (https://github.com/pen-lang/pen#system-injection)
In Pen: A programming language for scalable development

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