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nqp

NQP

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What it is

NQP

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What people are saying

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 9:01:12 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-20 00:31:53 UTC to 2021-04-20 00:18:30 UTC.

01232014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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raiph·Dec 20, 2014
Hi Brian, I've only read a few pages of the Slate site so far but it's brought back fond memories of image based systems I played with in the 80s. (I've done a total of about 5 years worth of professional programming over the last 30 years, primarily assembler and BCPL in the 80s and some Pascal and Perl in the 90s; I've played with many langs -- lisp, snobol, the toy smalltalkish systems Smalltalk/V and Actor, etc. -- in the late 80s; I'm currently a Perl 6 "enthusiast" -- my periodic HN search for "perl6" caught your mention of it.) If you have little to no idea what NQP [1] is, then my question is: What are the characteristics that a language/compiler/runtime/library have to have to adequately support an image based approach? I'm imagining OO; source code as objects; running code as objects; object serialization; incremental compilatio
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n; etc. I know I should research this myself (and will, now you've rekindled my interest) but I think your off-the-cuff answer will be an interesting and valuable start for me and perhaps others. Or, in the unlikely event that you DO know what NQP is, then my question is: Is it reasonable to think about building an image based system using the NQP toolchain? Thank you offering AMA. :) [1] https://github.com/perl6/nqp
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