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I'm new here. Is there a new language mentioned on Hacker News this frequently? I have skimmed the front page and seen at least a dozen or so being mentioned in

• Greenisus 13y ago
  It doesn't seem too frequent to me, but I often hear of languages first here on HN.
• trhtrhth 13y ago
  Idris isn't all that new...
• T-R 13y ago
  I think this past month has been a bit of an outlier with new languages, such as Avail, being posted. That said, I wouldn't count Idris as one of them - it's been around for a little while now, and in the community of people familiar with purely functional languages, it's probably about as well known as Elm or Agda: If talking to a Haskeller, there's a good chance they've at least heard of it. Of course, it's all relative - this community does have a good number of early language adopters and people involved in programming language research. At the other end of the spectrum, just a few years ago, I met a Java developer who, at the time, hadn't even heard of C# - I'd imagine he'd've been quite shocked by the languages talked about here.
• thinkpad20 13y ago
  Compared to other darling languages like Go, Haskell and Rust, I think Idris has a comparatively low profile. It pops up occasionally, but not all that much. I'd be surprised if it was a dozen in a month.
• colanderman 12y ago
  Not as often as 2048 is mentioned.