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SkipLabs
Company blog · skiplabs.io/blogprogrammingsystems
SkipLabs is the company blog at skiplabs.io, writing about programming and systems. Since 2024, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Skip: Code Declaratively, Compute Continuously”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link SkipLabs, the open-source reactive backend framework Skip, when discussing state handling in frontend frameworks. Comments cite it as an alternative and note confusion with skip.tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Skip: Code Declaratively, Compute Continuously6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-12-26
- Treat Agent Output Like Compiler Output3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-09
- Event-Hidden Architecture2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-21
What Hacker News says?
What makes Vue or Svelte different? Is it more abstract? Is the state model simpler? I have my issues with react but I don't think a different framework necessarily solves those issues since those issues are explicitly with how you need to handle state changes in JS and how "components" tie into that. I haven't used it but something like Elixer Pheonix liveview[1] / .NET blazor[2] or skiplabs skip[3] or a well setup…
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on “Moving on from React, a year later”Submitted Event-Hidden Architecture as a story · 14 points
HN discussionDarklang is pretty fascinating, and was brought to our attention when we started demo-ing Capela to some folks in the industry. I think where Darklang (and others like Skip [1]) falls short is that it is a new language. Capela instead leverages typed Python, an existing and pretty familiar language to most programmers (and LLMs). [1]: https://skiplabs.io
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on “Jepsen: Capela dda5892”Submitted Skip: Code Declaratively, Compute Continuously as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSo we got skip tools (Build native apps for iPhone and Android) https://skip.tools/ And skip labs (An open-source framework for building reactive backend services) https://skiplabs.io/ .. in the same day?
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on “'Skip' is a new tool to bring iOS apps to Android”Submitted The Apparatus, Not the Artifact as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dynamically Scaling Reactive Services with Skip (Now with Kubernetes Support) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skip makes your back end reactive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Treat Agent Output Like Compiler Output as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event-Hidden Architectures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event-Hidden Architectures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What are your thoughts on Skip? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skip – The Reactive Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nobody Reviews Compiler Output as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Was Never for Machines – Until Now as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Treat Agent Output Like Compiler Output as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
