Niche Programming Languages

Users recommend various niche and alternative programming languages such as Unison, Joy, Lucid, Factor, and concatenative languages as fitting examples or solutions to the ideas presented in the original post.

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wazHFsRy • Aug 27, 2019 • View on HN

I think the Unison language goes exactly in that directionhttp://unisonweb.org/

haskellandchill • Feb 19, 2021 • View on HN

Have you seen Unison language? They are positioned as a solution to what you are describing.

carapace • Apr 28, 2023 • View on HN

Neat!Maybe check out the Joy programming language? It seems well-suited to this domain.

aidenn0 • May 12, 2015 • View on HN

Sounds a lot like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language)

dang • Jun 22, 2024 • View on HN

Related:Show HN: Cognate – Stack oriented programming in English prose - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312815 - May 2022 (6 comments)

gclaramunt • Nov 5, 2015 • View on HN

curious: what's the underlying computational model for the language? the untyped lambda calculus? universal turing machine ? Or there's something new?

AndyKluger • Apr 22, 2025 • View on HN

Do concatenative langs like Factor fit the bill?

carapace • Jul 14, 2018 • View on HN

A language called "Spiral" went by yesterday, that I think does a little bit of that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519138

dqpb • Mar 30, 2019 • View on HN

Sounds like language oriented programming: https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/mps/docs/La...

etherealG • Feb 9, 2010 • View on HN

wow, that's really interesting. thanks. do you know of any production level languages that feature this kind of approach?