We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
Details
- External ID
- 47461321
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 145
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9384993849938499
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Yes, that Fortran.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bluesky client in fortran
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Although written in Fortran for novelty, it is fundamentally a command-line client wrapping public Bluesky/AT Protocol REST endpoints and parsing JSON.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GNU Fortran, flang-new, LFortran, libflame/BLIS, MKL (Intel's numerical library)
Concerns raised: Fortran lacks portability across compilers, Legacy code difficult to migrate to modern compilers, Compiler breaking changes (e.g., Gfortran), Closed source nature of some libraries, Compiler-dependent behavior makes long-term maintenance risky
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #4 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 140 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.