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Quokka

a self-hosting, deterministic programming language

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HN · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 67%) · 0 views

Niche: programming languages and interpreters · 161 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Designing and building a deterministic, self-hosting programming language with built-in ML fine-tuning bindings requires deep compiler design and language engineering expertise.

What it would actually take: Requires writing a lexer, parser, type checker, intermediate representation (IR), and code generator (often targeting LLVM or custom C emission) that reaches self-hosting capability. The language design requires rigorous formal semantics for determinism and low-level C ABI interop to bridge with native ML runtimes like Unsloth and PyTorch.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: unclear purpose

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3833 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #2500 of 3834 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.

  • bendc · github · 2026-09-22 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.70
  • Jik · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.68
  • The world's least deterministic programming language · hn · 2025-12-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • mistatic · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • jeanclode · github · 2026-09-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • X · hn · 2026-06-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Salt · hn · 2026-07-01 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • sword · github · 2026-09-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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