Boo programming language
Shares rank 121 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Free .NET language that people praise for metaprogramming and multi-phase compilation. Caveat: it was deprecated and removed from Unity.
Free .NET language that people praise for metaprogramming and multi-phase compilation. Caveat: it was deprecated and removed from Unity.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong metaprogramming and multi-phase compilation
“Boo was so good at metaprogramming and multi-phasr programming!”
Comment from 25 Dec 2025 in “Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation” Showed what was possible on .NET
“Boo and Nemerle both were really showing what was possible in .NET back in the early days.”
Comment from 25 Dec 2025 in “Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Deprecated and removed from Unity
“UnityScript and Boo got deprecated and removed”
Comment from 29 Dec 2025 in “Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should” Reported error running boo new
“getting “error: ReadOnlyFileSystem” on ‘boo new’. Definitely interested in something like this”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty” Discussions fizzle out
“the conversations always fizzle out”
Comment from 31 Jul 2026 in “Online Friends Are Real Friends”
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5 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the conversations always fizzle out”
“getting “error: ReadOnlyFileSystem” on ‘boo new’. Definitely interested in something like this”
“UnityScript and Boo got deprecated and removed”
“Boo and Nemerle both were really showing what was possible in .NET back in the early days.”
“Boo was so good at metaprogramming and multi-phasr programming!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.