Ur/Web
Shares rank 149 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Free language for building web apps, praised for elegant type-safe HTML and XML templating. Critics cite few libraries and slow compilation as projects grow.
Free language for building web apps, praised for elegant type-safe HTML and XML templating. Critics cite few libraries and slow compilation as projects grow.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: 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
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
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What people warn about
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Few libraries; slow compilation at scale
“the lack of libraries and slow compilation when the project gets big”
Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “30 years of <br> tags” Not very practical
“Needless to say it wasn't very practical.”
Comment from 17 Dec 2025 in “30 years of <br> tags”
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“the type-safe XML/HTML in Ur/Web was elegant”
“probably the closest to the idealised concept”
“One reason I love writing production code in Ur/Web”
“the lack of libraries and slow compilation when the project gets big”
“Needless to say it wasn't very practical.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.