Juniper Junos
Ranked 8 of 8 router firmware by recommenders
Recommended for its candidate and commit configuration system, which several people rate above Cisco IOS for managing routers and firewalls.
Recommended for its candidate and commit configuration system, which several people rate above Cisco IOS for managing routers and firewalls.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: 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: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
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
Candidate and commit configuration system praised
“the whole candidate and active config thing alone in Junos was insanely valuable”
Comment from 31 Oct 2026 in “Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code” “made even better configuration system for Junos than IOS was and still is”
Comment from 31 Oct 2026 in “Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code” “What they need to do is ape junos's commit feature set.”
Comment from 19 Jul 2026 in “LLM Networking with MikroTik”
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The four most recommended other router firmware, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 8 router firmware, rankedWhat people said
7 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the whole candidate and active config thing alone in Junos was insanely valuable”
“made even better configuration system for Junos than IOS was and still is”
“they seem like just another tech company that only wants millionaire customers”
“What they need to do is ape junos's commit feature set.”
“the absolute godlike gold standard”
“Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Netscreen load balancers too etc.”
“I picked that up and became fluent in it within about a day”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.