Acadia
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Elm-inspired language for SQLite and PostgreSQL that people praise for its enjoyable ergonomics and symbolic evaluation, though critics doubt it improves enough on SQL and worry about its licensing.
Elm-inspired language for SQLite and PostgreSQL that people praise for its enjoyable ergonomics and symbolic evaluation, though critics doubt it improves enough on SQL and worry about its licensing.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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10 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“full stack Elm + Acadia is an interesting proposition”
“one of my favorite aspects of the Acadia compiler, symbolic evaluation”
“only just Haskell and Elm at the moment unfortunately”
“it does not look like a big enough improvement compared to SQL that it seems worth to invest in it”
“Elm had this problem and Acadia has it too.”
“I don't see anything special here.”
“I'm sure Acadia will be a brilliant technical artifact, but I wouldn't get burned twice”
“he's trying a different funding model, so that might mean better support for both Acadia and Elm”
“With Acadia's licensing, you'd be stranded.”
“The ergonomics of the language itself seem enjoyable.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.