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skip

A programming language to skip the things you have already computed

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What it is

A programming language to skip the things you have already computed

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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, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-13 18:02:04 UTC to 2025-06-07 15:46:22 UTC.

012342019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 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

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
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 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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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venturin·Jun 7, 2025
We just released new capabilities in Skip to make reactive services scale easily and efficiently across machines. Skip’s core is a native reactive computation graph that minimizes unnecessary recomputation—great for real-time apps—but now you can also scale horizontally using a leader/follower architecture. We’ve open-sourced an example service (yes, it's called hackernews) you can try locally or on Kubernetes. It supports seamless scaling via kubectl scale, with zero downtime and no changes to your backend logic. Blog post with diagrams and code here: https://skip.dev/blog/dynamic-scaling GitHub repo: https://github.com/skiplang/skip To try it: npx create-skip-service hackernews --example hackernews --verbose docker compose -f hackernews/compose.distributed.yml up --build Curious to hear your thoughts or feedback!
In Dynamically Scaling Reactive Services with Skip (Now with Kubernetes Support)
vjeux·Dec 28, 2019
In a language I worked on ( github.com/skiplang/skip ), at the moment where we throw a syntax error, we can look at the previous few tokens and generate much better error message. In the case of the above, if last is ], previous is number and before is 0, then put a nice error message where octal notation is not allowed. This is not “pure” from a language theory sense but in practice if you add a handful of common ones, it makes for a much better experience.
In Unintuitive JSON Parsing
chubot·May 13, 2019
The Skip language (which I mentioned in another comment) is a language based entirely on incremental computation. Every piece of code you write in it becomes incremental, as far as I know. AND the compiler is self-hosted!!! So that means they have a fully incremental compiler. Although there is an LLVM back end, so maybe only the front end of the compiler is incremental? That's still important. It comes from the same people as the Hack language, which I believe has a fast "online" typechecker -- which I think is incremental (?) I believe you could write a C compiler in Skip the same way? If you peek at the source code, it has a 6000 line recursive descent parser, and 6000 line type checker, much in the style of OCaml (but in Skip). I think this deserves a blog post because it's not clear to me that the message of Skip got through (7 m
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onths ago on HN). Their website has some examples, but not too many. Of course, I haven't tried it yet, and it's a super ambitious project, so there could be some big problem with it. But if the goal is to make an entire suite of compiler and devtools that are incremental, then Skip seems like it's ahead of the state of the art and something to borrow from. Salsa was also mentioned, and I believe it's based on some of the same academic work like Adapton. But I don't know if they have an entire self-hosted compiler as a demo like Skip does. It seems to be "query-oriented" rather than supporting arbitrary code, which is what I would expect for most incremental computing frameworks. Skip seems to be more ambitious. https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa I believe that the Skip language does this, because it's compiler is self-hosted. It's http://skiplang.com/blog/2017/01/04/how-memoization-works.ht... https://github.com/skiplang/skip/tree/master/src/frontend Skip – A programming language to skip the things you have already computed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077612 https://github.com/skiplang/skip/blob/master/src/frontend/sk...
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