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reia
Erlang2008–2016
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reia

Ruby-like hybrid OOP/functional programming language for BEAM, the Erlang VM

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What it is

Ruby-like hybrid OOP/functional programming language for BEAM, the Erlang VM

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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

HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2008-09-25 16:38:33 UTC to 2016-12-02 15:56:20 UTC.

0122008-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20082009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016

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
20082008-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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pmontra·Dec 2, 2016
No because it's statically typed, too much work programming like that and it's not worth it for the kind of software I develop (backend of web/mobile apps), but thanks. Suggestions are always appreciated. I found a defunct Ruby like language called Reia a couple of days ago https://github.com/tarcieri/reia/ and http://reia-lang.org/ It's object oriented and runs on the top of the Erlang VM. It maps classes on gen servers, which is pretty natural and it spares the developer all the boilerplate of creating a gen server module. Unfortunately the language designer killed it because "it's pretty bad to have two competing niche languages with nearly identical features." The other language was Elixir. However the two languages are very different. Elixir is 100% functional, Reia could have been the language to transition millions of OO developers
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to a functional and concurrent world. I could have used it instead of Ruby.
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