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Acadia Engineering Blog
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Acadia Engineering Blog is the company blog at acadia.engineering, writing about programming, systems and data. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Acadia License Reasoning”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Acadia's blog and license FAQ while discussing the Acadia language, a database-querying language with an Elm-like experience. Comments focus on its compile-time evaluation, its licensing and its funding model.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Acadia License Reasoning4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-18
- Acadia Bringing the benefits of elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-10-29
- Simple and Efficient Row-Level Security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-16
- Rethinking Database Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-18
What Hacker News says?
This post is about one of my favorite aspects of the Acadia compiler, symbolic evaluation. The compiler evaluates queries as much as possible at compile-time, so it is able to reduce `case` expressions, `let` expressions, etc. One neat outcome of this is that large expressions can sometimes be fully evaluated at compile-time, so they end up having no runtime cost at all! I like this feature because it also only work…
Comment linking /blog/solving-the-1-plus-N-query-problem
on “Simple and Efficient Row-Level Security”Submitted Solving the 1+N Query Problem as a story · 59 points
HN discussionClosed source :( https://acadia.engineering/license/faq (archive since these things change over time: https://archive.vn/oUwxDwxD )
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on “Rethinking Database Programming”Submitted Simple and Efficient Row-Level Security as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI'm actually most excited about the new funding model: https://acadia.engineering/license/faq I won't be able to use Acadia at work, and I don't have the risk tolerance to use it for personal projects, but I'm looking forward to seeing how/if this model pays the bills.
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on “Rethinking Database Programming”Submitted Rethinking Database Programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> So even if “open core” is a strictly better model, we lack the intuition and experience to feel confident starting there. By thinking of Elm as the “open core” at first, we give ourselves time to learn and flexibility to expand the core later. https://acadia.engineering/license/faq The way I read this, Acadia is an attempt to finance working on both it and Elm.
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on “Rethinking Database Programming”Submitted Acadia License Reasoning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom the homepage https://acadia.engineering/ : | Not an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).
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on “Rethinking Database Programming”Submitted Acadia Bringing the benefits of elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programm... Post from the author
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on “Acadia Bringing the benefits of elm to SQLite and PostgreSQL”Submitted Simple and Efficient Row-Level Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI left this comment a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45752905 when someone asked what was up with Elm at the current moment. I left a bunch off. - Evan entered hermit mode to create Acadia, a language for an Elm-like experience querying the database. He's given conference talks about it but none have been recorded. https://acadia.engineering/ This seems to have the same goals as Lamdera. - Evan hint…
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on “Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go”The syntax of the language is pretty much what it is for the forseeable future. There's a lot of activity with libraries and such, but not the language itself. > Is there a fork that has taken over development? Lamdera is an "un-fork" that is the most interesting. It compiles Elm code into JS 1:1 compatible with the current Elm compiler, and it also allows for compiling full stack Elm including database storage and…
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on “Elm Is the Best Way for React Developers to Learn Real Functional Programming”