Mog programming language
Shares rank 77 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Praised for a compact spec of 3,200 tokens, explicit capability-based security and a small system footprint. Critics note no AI training data and missing operator precedence.
Praised for a compact spec of 3,200 tokens, explicit capability-based security and a small system footprint. Critics note no AI training data and missing operator precedence.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 75%
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: 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
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3 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
Explicit capability-based security model
“the security features are great, explicit capabilities”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Sigil – A new programming language for AI agents” “That is the right primitive for safe self-extension.”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” “The capability-based permission model is elegant.”
Comment from 14 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” Thoughtful, practical, limited design
“a little attempt at something limited but practical”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 on Hacker News “You clearly put a lot of thought into this!”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No AI training data available
“given there is no training dataset, any other language would work better with AI”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” “due to the lack of the training set”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” Seen as AI-generated and unoriginal
“if you're going to do it come up with at least one original idea that nobody else has done before.”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” “I swear, if I see another Claude-generated "programming language", I'm going to barf.”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” Performance claims doubted
“They could have just used cranelift for jit, but no..”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language” “"no process startup cost" is presumably a lie?”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: The Mog Programming Language”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
19 of the 22 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the security features are great, explicit capabilities”
“a little attempt at something limited but practical”
“The capability-based permission model is elegant.”
“I'm impressed with the ability to put a language specification into 3,200 token.”
“due to the lack of the training set”
“That is the right primitive for safe self-extension.”
“You clearly put a lot of thought into this!”
“I swear, if I see another Claude-generated "programming language", I'm going to barf.”
“given that spec, ambiguous code just won't compile. that could potentially be inefficient, but not a foot gun.”
“this is probably the most compelling case for Mog”
“there's not a great way to iterate over strings by _code point_”
“OK that does immediately make it boring, I give them that much.”
“no operator precedence seems like a massive foot-gun”
“Its potential lies in having better performance and a much smaller total system footprint and complexity than the alternatives.”
“They could have just used cranelift for jit, but no..”
“if you're going to do it come up with at least one original idea that nobody else has done before.”
“"no process startup cost" is presumably a lie?”
“given there is no training dataset, any other language would work better with AI”
“I admittedly do prefer the syntax here”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.