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NoiseLang

Shares rank 149 of 163 programming languages by recommenders

People enjoy experimenting with NoiseLang and find its API useful, though critics say the language itself is weak and not for production use.

People enjoy experimenting with NoiseLang and find its API useful, though critics say the language itself is weak and not for production use.

6 people gave an opinion

recommend it
5
criticize it
1
approval share
83%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 1 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: not recommended
  11. September 2026: not recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
  • 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 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 to experiment with

    “Definitely going to play around with this, thanks for posting.”

    Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

    “i always wanted something like this. i love it.”

    Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

What people warn about

Each mark is one comment

  • Not for production use

    “every language feature works in your favor too, but agree with you, i would not use my own language for anything production”

    Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”
  • Language design criticized

    “The API is useful, language is not”

    Comment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

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What people said

All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“i always wanted something like this. i love it.”

RecommendsComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

“I didn’t really see loops being handled here.”

CriticizesComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

“every language feature works in your favor too, but agree with you, i would not use my own language for anything production”

MixedComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

“their impl can compile to wasm, which makes giving an online interpreter simpler/lighter weight than relying on running python in the browser”

RecommendsComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

“The API is useful, language is not”

MixedComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

“Definitely going to play around with this, thanks for posting.”

RecommendsComment from 8 Jul 2026 in “NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.