# The Folders Programming Language

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/folders-programming-language/

6 people recommended The Folders Programming Language in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 12 months, in 1 thread. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 6 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “The Folders Programming Language”.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an absurd, clever joke language where code lives in folders; critics balk at the effort needed to write even simple statements.

Summary written by Claude from 6 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Absurd, unhinged and fun (2 comments in the sample): "This is so nuts and pointless… I love it!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115383)) "absolutely unhinged, i love it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115603))
- Good idea behind it (1 comment in the sample): "This idea is so good, though" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116588))
- Inspires awe and wonder (1 comment in the sample): "I can't decide if I'm in awe, or angry." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118058))

## What people warn about

- Writing statements takes huge effort (1 comment in the sample): "I imagined the amount of effort it would take to write a single statement and viscerally recoiled." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115385))
- Folders for production software unsettling (1 comment in the sample): "finding 23 million empty folders being used to define software for prod" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119367))

## Other programming languages people recommend

- [Rust](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rust/): 1346 recommend, 468 mixed, 715 criticize
- [Go](https://hackerapproved.com/p/go-programming-language/): 855 recommend, 270 mixed, 513 criticize
- [Python](https://hackerapproved.com/p/python/): 683 recommend, 261 mixed, 719 criticize
- [Zig](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zig/): 454 recommend, 181 mixed, 358 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Folders Programming Language", https://hackerapproved.com/p/folders-programming-language/ (6 recommend, 2 mixed, 2 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.