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Products that do what Darklang does

Holistic language, editor, and infra for building backends

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    Darklang326

    2019 · medium.com

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    uilang280

    A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

    2014

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    The future of no-code backend development

    2023

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    Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…

    2024 · github.com

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    Gowebly130

    A next-generation CLI tool to build web apps easier

    2024

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    Turn database schema into Backend API source codes

    2023

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    Extension for i18n codebases making developers life's easier

    2023

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    Create complete tools with just backend code

    2023

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    An app to help you learn to code

    2020

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    Scalable low-code backend as a service, with 0 lock-in.

    2025

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    What's your tool chain for data and document processing? - jq is great, but limited to JSON; and jQuery limited to HTML; templating systems get messy for non-trivial logic; TypeScript lacks pattern matching and schema support. So I built Lambda — an expressive functional language that combines the power of Lisp, TypeScript, and many DSLs like jq, jQuery, RelaxNG, etc. It has a lightweight 9 MB runtime, built from scratch in C/C++, that provides an end-to-end document processing pipeline (parse → validate/query/transform → layout → render/view). Internally, Lambda parse…

    Mar 2026 · github.com

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    Three.js recently introduced TSL (Three.js Shading Language), a way to write shaders in pure JavaScript/TypeScript that compiles to both GLSL and WGSL. I built this editor to provide a visual interface for the tsl ecosystem. It allows developers to prototype shaders for WebGPU/WebGL and see the results in real-time. This is a beta release and I'm looking for feedback.

    Jan 2026 · tsl-graph.xyz

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    Hello, for the past couple of months, we've been developing Mify and I wanted to share it with the people here. We've been writing backends for multiple different big and small companies and noticed that backend development progresses in way too similar cycles. At first people write a small set of services or in better case a single service to do what's needed. At some point the tech debt becomes too much of a hassle to handle as company grows, engineers are starting to scale the codebase, rewriting code, splitting monolith, introducing microservices and eventually after a bunch of…

    2023 · github.com

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    Hi HN, we’re Jessie and Eric. We’ve been baking away at Cakework (https://www.cakework.com/), which is a way to build async backends without needing to manage cloud infrastructure. Cakework is for operations that take time or more compute, like file processing, report generation, or machine learning. Devs write backends as Python functions and deploy them with our CLI. They use our client SDKs to make requests, get status, and get processing results. Each request runs with its own CPU and memory parameters in its own microVM, with no timeouts. Devs can query for failures and…

    2023 · cakework.com

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    AStack is a composable framework designed to simplify the development of AI applications through a "everything is a component" philosophy. It provides a zero-adaptation layer design that enables seamless integration between various AI models, tools, and custom business logic. AStack is an independent technical framework with its own architecture and ecosystem, built on top of Hlang - a highly semantic fourth-generation language (4GL) inspired by Flow-Based Programming paradigms. This foundation on Hlang, which is particularly well-suited for computational modeling and AI-generated code, is…

    2025 · github.com

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    hi hn, today I'm open sourcing a new SQL-like query language that's built for the web. it has dedicated syntax for request, parsers, selectors, and javascript snippets... it was built on nodejs with the incredible moo lexer and nearley parser. if you're a fan of regular expressions, do I have some code to show you! the website is mostly just a few examples and a playground where you can write & run (& share!) your own queries. there's also an introductory blog post where i try but ultimately fail to justify why this should be its own language and not a library/framework. enjoy!

    2024 · getlang.dev

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    Hi HN, I’ve been working on an experimental programming language called XXML. The project started from a frustration I kept running into across systems languages: Languages with strong ownership tend to avoid runtime reflection. Languages with rich reflection usually rely on GC or give up memory guarantees. Compile-time code generation often requires a separate macro language. I wanted to explore whether those tradeoffs are truly necessary. What XXML is trying to do XXML is a statically-typed, native language that: Uses explicit ownership and borrowing (no garbage collector) Supports runtime…

    Dec 2025 · xxml-language.com

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    Hello, I'm the author of the nature programming language, which has reached an early usable version since its first commit in 2021 until today. --- Why implement such a programming language? go is a programming language that I use for my daily work, and the first time I used golang, I was amazed by its simple syntax, freedom of programming ideas, ease of cross-compilation and deployment, excellent and high-performance runtime implementations, and advanced concurrency style design based on goroutine, etc. But, golang also has some inconveniences - The syntax is too concise, resulting in a…

    2025 · github.com

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    A project we've been working on for some time that allows you to incrementally adopt modern open standards on top of existing express endpoints. The framework is being used in production by a handful of companies, while the CLI is still in beta.

    Sep 2025 · github.com

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    Much of the complexity surrounding building no-code editors come from architecting the state management system to power such editors: how can we allow end-users to create and edit entire UI components directly from the browser? Reka solves this by providing an AST-powered state system that enables end-users to create UI components that are nearly as complex as ones that developers could write in code; along with an interpreter to efficiently compute an output that could be rendered on the browser. Furthermore, Reka provides additional extensions, such as enabling real-time collaboration via…

    2023 · reka.js.org

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    I started working on this back in 2019, mostly as a design idea. Over the last month I made a big push to make it 100% usable and replace C# in all my personal projects. I now feel it's solid enough to gather feedback from other developers. If you take it for a spin, I hope you enjoy it and send your thoughts!

    Jun 2026 · davidobando.github.io

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