Tomo programming language
Shares rank 121 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
People recommend Tomo for its goals and its neat, well-thought, small design. Critics point to the lack of polymorphism or generics.
People recommend Tomo for its goals and its neat, well-thought, small design. Critics point to the lack of polymorphism or generics.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not 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: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 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
Goals people wish already existed
“I like the goals of this language a lot and I've wished something with these goals already existed.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video]” “Well thought language, I like the concepts.”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video]” Neat, well-thought, small language
“Looks like a neat little language. I didn't see anything especially novel that other languages would want to steal though.”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video]” “Well thought language, I like the concepts.”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video]”
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All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Really, this is a nice game scripting language you have here.”
“Tomo's syntax makes the type annotations really nice for functions that return functions”
“One thing I dislike about the syntax of Tomo is that the return type is annotated inside the parentheses.”
“list starting at 1, with -1 being the last élément and 0 being 'none' is weird”
“I like the goals of this language a lot and I've wished something with these goals already existed.”
“Looks like a neat little language. I didn't see anything especially novel that other languages would want to steal though.”
“I very much appreciate the automatic parsing of command line arguments (and beyond just strings)”
“it has no polymorphism or generics, which hugely differentiates it from Nim”
“makes it DOA for me. Also the fact that this is a GC language makes it feel like it's aiming at higher level applications than C.”
“Well thought language, I like the concepts.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.