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9 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2026-04-19 · latest 2026-09-20

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  1. > https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare You might want to take a look at Odin as well.
    comment by ksec · 2026-09-20 · in What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  2. …compiler, it's not yet stable enough to be the best target language for archival purposes. https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare So you're in a restaurant where you don't speak the language, you can't read the menu, but you see three price…
    comment by Syzygies · 2026-09-19 · in What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  3. https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare I spent far too long comparing dozens of languages, only some of which are part of the above project, before switching from Haskell to Lean for a new phase of my math research. Lean wins for me without…
    comment by Syzygies · 2026-07-30 · in Are We Stuck with Lean?
  4. …I didn't see semicolons, but I saw plenty of {} braces, and I can't explain why they're needed. https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare "I'm already quite sure how I will die: I'll read another article on Hacker News about a new programming…
  5. …Lean 4 as the successor "best language in existence" for my needs. My recent language comparison: https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare My APL one-liner story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27460887
    comment by Syzygies · 2026-05-14 · in Saying Goodbye to one line of APL
  6. …a better language makes it possible to express algorithms out of reach of more primitive languages. https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare C++ 100 13.08s ±0.08s Rust 99 13.16s ±0.02s Julia 90 14.54s ±0.01s F# 90 14.54s ±0.04s Kotlin-native 88…
    comment by Syzygies · 2026-05-09 · in Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)
  7. …but it struck me and my various agents that we'd be fighting the language to make it faster. https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare
    comment by Syzygies · 2026-05-03 · in Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
  8. This project? https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare If Dotcl does have good performance, it would be interesting to try running Coalton on top of it too. Coalton syntax is probably not unusual if you are familiar with OCaml and F#:…
  9. …±0.03s Ocaml 47 41.10s ±0.10s Haskell 40 47.94s ±0.06s Chez 39 49.46s ±0.04s Lean 10 198.63s ±1.02s https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare
    comment by Syzygies · 2026-04-19 · in The seven programming ur-languages (2022)