Borgo
Shares rank 121 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
A language that compiles to Go, praised for its design ideas; critics say it is inactive, with its last commit over a year old.
A language that compiles to Go, praised for its design ideas; critics say it is inactive, with its last commit over a year old.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not 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.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 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
Looked really good at first
“It looked really good! But seems kinda dead”
Comment from 3 Jan 2026 in “The C3 Programming Language” Possibly the AST approach needed
“I think it may be the AST that we all need.”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Go is the best language for agents”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Last commit over a year ago
“Though I think it's more of a hobby language. The last commit was > 1 year ago.”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig” “seems to be abandoned. Last commit a year ago.”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go” Not actively developed, immature
“it's not yet mature and not being actively developed”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Go's Sweet 16” “It looked really good! But seems kinda dead”
Comment from 3 Jan 2026 in “The C3 Programming Language”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
6 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Both Borgo and now Lisette seem to act as though (T, error) returns are equivalent to a Result sum type, but this is not semantically valid in all cases.”
“I think it may be the AST that we all need.”
“It looked really good! But seems kinda dead”
“seems to be abandoned. Last commit a year ago.”
“Though I think it's more of a hobby language. The last commit was > 1 year ago.”
“it's not yet mature and not being actively developed”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.