Nibble
Shares rank 91 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Recommended for clean, minimalist design and a compact, impressive compiler frontend. Critics note missing language explanations and call it nothing special.
Recommended for clean, minimalist design and a compact, impressive compiler frontend. Critics note missing language explanations and call it nothing special.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 3 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: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 12 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 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
Clean, minimalist, well-written design
“it's very well-written. I really enjoyed the chapter about designing the instruction set.”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator” “Looks really neat and minimalist”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble” “clean project, bookmarked it”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble” Compact, impressive single-pass compiler frontend
“A single pass LLVM frontend in ~3k lines of C with no malloc or AST is kind of wild.”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble” “Doing this in ~3k LOC C without malloc or an AST is honestly pretty impressive.”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble” Charming logo and enthusiasm
“Brilliant logo. It tickles my brain.”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble” “Really loving this project tbh :D <3”
Comment from 20 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Lacks explanations of the language
“Love this. But no explanations about the language.”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble” Seen as nothing special
“Good for a student work, but nothing special.”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “Show HN: Nibble”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
13 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“either you're lying about this being an internal tool you've used on real-world clusters/projects, or your LLM is lying on your behalf”
“I've been using it as an internal tool on many projects that have done quite well.”
“initial commit 50 minutes ago, containing 12k lines”
“Really loving this project tbh :D <3”
“it's very well-written. I really enjoyed the chapter about designing the instruction set.”
“Good for a student work, but nothing special.”
“clean project, bookmarked it”
“A single pass LLVM frontend in ~3k lines of C with no malloc or AST is kind of wild.”
“Looks really neat and minimalist”
“Love this. But no explanations about the language.”
“Brilliant logo. It tickles my brain.”
“Doing this in ~3k LOC C without malloc or an AST is honestly pretty impressive.”
“The tradeoff is worth it for correctness-critical protocol work.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.