Gossamer programming language
Shares rank 149 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Free Rust-like language with Rust function calls and goroutine-style concurrency; people like its design, but critics doubt claims of preemption, memory and ecosystem.
Free Rust-like language with Rust function calls and goroutine-style concurrency; people like its design, but critics doubt claims of preemption, memory and ecosystem.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 31%
Recommended in 1 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: 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.
- 0.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 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
Easy Rust interop and similar syntax
“The syntax similarities help make for a more painless two language approach.”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “All three points are erased by its ability to call Rust functions”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” Appealing language design
“the actual language design seems quite nice”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “If Gossamer were to drop that claim, then I'd say it looks impressive to me.”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Concurrency and memory claims overstated
“Green threads are not impressive if they are not preemptive.”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “That means it doesn't have "pause free" memory.”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “m:n scheduled by io is .. 2000s-era”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” Suspected vibe-coded, doubtful ecosystem
“Even on the off chance this project is not entirely vibe coded how could it ever build an ecosystem?”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “It's clearly vibecoded if you look at the commit history.”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” Rust overhead and flavour claims questioned
“Calling this rust flavored (or even a systems programming language) seems a bit bold.”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “it isn't used for its own compiler. The compiler is written in Rust.”
Comment from 27 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “it's going to have more overhead than rust when it's running”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” Web routing example looks awkward
“The web-routing thing is especially gross because a different example shows off pattern-matching.”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory” “That web routing example is absolutely gross to my eye”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory”
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All 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The syntax similarities help make for a more painless two language approach.”
“pretty much every language except Gossamer can do”
“All three points are erased by its ability to call Rust functions”
“It should be suitable for hard real time systems.”
“Green threads are not impressive if they are not preemptive.”
“If Gossamer were to drop that claim, then I'd say it looks impressive to me.”
“it isn't used for its own compiler. The compiler is written in Rust.”
“it's going to have more overhead than rust when it's running”
“Calling this rust flavored (or even a systems programming language) seems a bit bold.”
“I don't get why you'd half fix it (by introducing spawn) but then leave it in anyways.”
“Even on the off chance this project is not entirely vibe coded how could it ever build an ecosystem?”
“the actual language design seems quite nice”
“Python is sorting a set (unique values only), but I'm not seeing a unique or set approach for gossamer.”
“The web-routing thing is especially gross because a different example shows off pattern-matching.”
“m:n scheduled by io is .. 2000s-era”
“It's clearly vibecoded if you look at the commit history.”
“That web routing example is absolutely gross to my eye”
“Glad to see more languages adopt true goroutines”
“That means it doesn't have "pause free" memory.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.