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A friendly programming language from the future

25 mentions on Hacker News by 23 people: 5 stories, 20 comments · first 2019-01-15 · latest 2026-09-14

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    Unison: A friendly programming language from the future
    story by sigalor · 2026-09-14 · 1 comment
  2. …Just bring your own weird syntax. I guess Unison is the closest to this platonic ideal right now? https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/499
    comment by dmit · 2026-02-26 · in The Om Programming Language
  3. https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/blob/trunk/unison-hashin...
    comment by stewoconnor · 2025-11-26 · in Unison 1.0
  4. We do have an FFI now! https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/pull/6008 It's very recent and we'll be adding more types to it soon, this first PR was just focused on the core machinery. This is in the 1.0 release, btw. Let us know if you give…
    comment by pchiusano · 2025-11-25 · in Unison 1.0
  5. …. Curious to see similarities/differences. Also reminds me of Unison at a conceptual level: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by nathanwilk7 · 2024-07-12 · in Show HN: Mandala – Automatically save, query and version Python computations
  6. …according to their users' preferences. Edit: it appears that Unison has an issue for this feature: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/499
    comment by __MatrixMan__ · 2024-07-08 · in Python with Braces
  7. Website: https://www.unison-lang.org Repo: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by chmaynard · 2024-06-25 · in Programming in Unison
  8. …complex than actually knowing the meaning of the code did change. Maybe create a Feature Request :) https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by brabel · 2024-03-21 · in Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
  9. …more ergonomic. Discusson of type classes comes up a lot. Here is a long-standing GitHub issue: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/502 For what it's worth, I've written Unison quite a lot over the past few years and while I've…
    comment by badelectron · 2024-02-08 · in Unison Cloud
  10. …of Unison could let you pick from a variety of syntaxes. But we haven't gotten to it yet. [1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/499 ... that said, the language semantics and libraries are still going to be different, so even if we…
    comment by pchiusano · 2024-02-07 · in Unison Cloud
  11. …looks more polished, but there's "The Big Idea" behind Unison - is there something similar? [1]: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by bez00m · 2023-12-06 · in Show HN: Winglang – A new cloud-oriented programming language
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    Unison Language
    story by coldtea · 2023-09-13 · 1 comment
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    Unison Milestone 3
    story by todsacerdoti · 2022-03-09 · 0 comments
  14. …5. Odin - https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin 6. Koka - https://github.com/koka-lang/koka 7. Unison - https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by yewenjie · 2022-02-05 · in High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime
  15. The Unison language [1] also has a very interesting effect system. [1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by the_duke · 2021-04-26 · in Red and blue functions are a good thing
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    The Unison Language
    story by ibraheemdev · 2021-02-18 · 0 comments
  17. …(Unison does not use traditional text storage but stores code in a normalized repository) [1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by the_duke · 2020-11-09 · in Pijul: Towards 1.0
  18. Looking at their GitHub [1], it's been actively developed and open source since 2013. [1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by kbr · 2020-01-10 · in The Unison language
  19. …IDE, and DVCS. Once you store the AST and all history, some fascinating side effects happen! https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by JackMorgan · 2020-01-07 · in Is Git Irreplaceable? (2019)
  20. …It's kinda made for that although more with an eye towards updates to distributed systems. [0] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by daralthus · 2019-12-12 · in Layered Programming (2013)
  21. https://github.com/unisonweb/unison Didn't see a link anywhere so here.
    comment by RenRav · 2019-09-20 · in Unison: A new distributed programming language
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    Unison – A statically-typed purely functional language
    story by tosh · 2019-08-27 · 25 comments
  23. It took a moment to google what Unison is. Apparently a new programming language: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by patkai · 2019-08-18 · in Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 (2018)
  24. Nor with a certain super cool language of the future https://github.com/unisonweb/unison
    comment by extempore · 2019-08-06 · in Unison File Synchronizer
  25. 'Dependencies' section sounds a lot like what https://github.com/unisonweb/unison is doing
    comment by platz · 2019-01-15 · in A Founder's Farewell