Flix programming language
Shares rank 149 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
People recommend Flix as a language that embeds Datalog queries directly, and as a close successor to Scala with notable work on effects.
People recommend Flix as a language that embeds Datalog queries directly, and as a close successor to Scala with notable work on effects.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: 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
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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Why people recommend it
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Embeds Datalog in a general-purpose language
“If you want to see what it looks like when you actually embed Datalog in your language, have a look at Flix”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016)” “is an embedded Datalog DB and query in a general-purpose programming language”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Learn Prolog Now (2006)”
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6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Flix is doing major advances with effects”
“there's a lot of practical Datalog-ish systems that can recover Turing completeness”
“I really like how flix.dev looks, but there's always a little nagging at the back of my head”
“If you want to see what it looks like when you actually embed Datalog in your language, have a look at Flix”
“I looks like a pretty nice spiritual successor to Scala.”
“is an embedded Datalog DB and query in a general-purpose programming language”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.