Lambda 0.2
Shares rank 133 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Free functional programming language that people praise for its impressive, growing feature set and say is fun to try out.
Free functional programming language that people praise for its impressive, growing feature set and say is fun to try out.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 2 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: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 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
Impressive, growing feature set
“Both the set of features and the benchmark results look really impressive”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery” “keep bringing us more incredible features”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Lambda 0.3 – a funcitonal lang with E2E doc pipeline” “The feature set looks compelling.”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Lambda 0.2 – a func language better than TypeScrip, jq and jQuery”
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The four most recommended other programming languages, 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 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“keep bringing us more incredible features”
“this would define the future of cross-platform, multi-format data and document processing”
“Type can be constructed like data at runtime under Lambda, which is more powerful than most programming languages.”
“Lambda's PDF support is still very limited at moment.”
“Both the set of features and the benchmark results look really impressive”
“But it should be fun to try it out.”
“The feature set looks compelling.”
“A game-changing programming language has just emerged!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.