Han programming language
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Recommended as a fun Korean-language programming language built on real Korean words. Critics say it gives no efficiency gain and may hurt readability for non-Korean readers.
Recommended as a fun Korean-language programming language built on real Korean words. Critics say it gives no efficiency gain and may hurt readability for non-Korean readers.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 19
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not 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
- 19 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, 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
Fun and interesting to explore
“So no efficiency benefit today. But it was a fun exploration, and Korean speakers can read the code like natural language.”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” “This looks like quite an intriguing project.”
Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” “this looks cool and a fun project”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” - Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust”
Built on real Korean words
“It's been a long time since I've seen a properly implemented Korean programming language”
Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” “a purpose-built language designed around Korean from the ground up”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” “Han uses actual Korean words, not transliterations.”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” Code is easy to read
“So no efficiency benefit today. But it was a fun exploration, and Korean speakers can read the code like natural language.”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” “the code looks very easy to read”
Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” Brings Korean to developer tooling
“Great project. As a Korean CS student I always wished Korean had more presence in dev tooling.”
Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust” “It's been a long time since I've seen a properly implemented Korean programming language”
Comment from 15 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
18 of the 22 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the code looks very easy to read”
“going through your examples seem to be improving my Korean vocabulary”
“This looks like quite an intriguing project.”
“That is _very_ cool! Starred!”
“it could become even stronger if it considers the structural differences between English and Korean”
“Great project. As a Korean CS student I always wished Korean had more presence in dev tooling.”
“It's been a long time since I've seen a properly implemented Korean programming language”
“the dream is finally catching up with me”
“However, from a collaboration perspective it might reduce readability for contributors who are not familiar with Korean.”
“I'd love to see Han live and evolving.”
“Really cool to see more developer tools built in Rust”
“anecdotally it is also interesting to use with ai”
“a purpose-built language designed around Korean from the ground up”
“maybe you can't do full unicode. that's too bad!”
“Han uses actual Korean words, not transliterations.”
“the first couple of examples used arrays and [ and ] seemed to just blend in with the identifiers”
“So no efficiency benefit today. But it was a fun exploration, and Korean speakers can read the code like natural language.”
“this looks cool and a fun project”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.