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Wasp
Company blog · wasp-lang.dev/blog · on HN as matijashprogrammingwebstartups
Wasp is the company blog at wasp-lang.dev, writing about programming, web and startups. Since 2020, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “Show HN: Wasp (Alpha) is out – DSL for building web apps with React/Node/Prisma”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point people to Wasp (wasp-lang.dev), an opinionated full-stack framework and DSL for React, Node and Prisma that handles auth, routes and deployment. Doubts centre on its bespoke language.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Wasp is a full-stack TypeScript framework wiring React, Node.js and Prisma together, with auth, jobs and deployment built in, like Rails or Laravel.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Wasp (Alpha) is out – DSL for building web apps with React/Node/Prisma9 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2020-02-19
- Show HN: Wasp – a DSL for building full-stack web apps4 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-02-14
- On the Importance of RFCs in Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-07
- Why Theo is wrong and we'll get a Rails for JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-30
- Wasp Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-19
- How to communicate why your startup is worth joining2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-16
- How and why I got started with Haskell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-08
- Permissions (access control) in web apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-30
What Hacker News says?
What a great thread! To add to the list of tools other already mentioned, we are building https://wasp-lang.dev/ - it is a language that aims to be dev-friendly and compiles to React/Node. We are still pre-Alpha but would love to get your feedback.
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?”Submitted How to communicate why your startup is worth joining as a story · 212 points
HN discussionHey everybody! I am together with my brother working on a DSL for building full-stack web apps. It is a pretty big task but we are trying to go step by step. It's an OSS, you can check it out here: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp Our latest demo, visually inspecting your web-app code: https://wasp-lang.dev/#wasp-inspector Would love to hear what you think!
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on “Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?”Submitted ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like as a story · 141 points
HN discussionDidn't Meteor offer a conceptually similar solution, in the sense that data is constantly synced, via sockets? But it didn't require us to think about sockets so much, which is great. There is a lot of talk at the start of the article how web development should be easier, how it should be less about the underlying architecture and that we shouldn't spend time on implementation details like state that SPA suddenly ha…
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on “The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets”Submitted Our fundraising learning post-YC as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI’m 100% convinced I would never have learned to code without Meteor… it made so many things simpler. You should check out wasp[0], which has a lot of philosophy in common. Disclosure: I am investor in the company behind the project. [0] https://wasp-lang.dev
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on “Building apps in minutes, not months”Submitted Show HN: Wasp (Alpha) is out – DSL for building web apps with React/Node/Prisma as a story · 34 points
HN discussionWow, this thread really exploded! My 2 cents on Haskell, since we're building https://wasp-lang.dev/ in it and also just hired several founding engineers: - we're sticking with the "Boring Haskell" manifesto( https://www.snoyman.com/blog/2019/11/boring-haskell-manifest... ) - using only the widely adopted compiler plugins and not going too crazy with the monad transformer stack, which keeps the code easy for others…
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on “I would like a job writing Haskell”Submitted Show HN: Wasp – a DSL for building full-stack web apps as a story · 20 points
HN discussionWasp is hiring a framework engineer to build Laravel for JS | Remote (US East Coast / EU) We are Matija and Martin, founders of Wasp ( https://wasp-lang.dev/ ) and twin brothers. We’re building a Rails/Laravel-like full-stack framework that is designed to be stack and architecture-agnostic. Currently, we’re focusing on React, Node.js and Prisma. Our secret sauce is a custom-built compiler at the heart of the framewo…
Comment linking /blog/2024/04/25/first-framework-that-lets-you-visualize-react-node-app-code
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted How to get started with Haskell in 2022 (the straightforward way) as a story · 18 points
HN discussionDo you mean https://wasp-lang.dev/ perhaps?
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on “Astro: Ship Less JavaScript”Submitted How and why I got started with Haskell as a story · 17 points
HN discussionWasp-lang ( https://wasp-lang.dev/ ) | Founding Engineer | Full-Time | Remote [GMT - 5, GMT + 3] At Wasp, we are building a compiled, stack-agnostic DSL for implementing full stack web-apps, that interops with the existing stack (React & Node.js currently). Imagine Ruby on Rails as a language and not bound to the specific stack or architecture. The compiler is implemented in Haskell. Our team is remote, with enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Show HN: Wasp Inspector – conditionally generate web-app with a debug layer as a story · 12 points
HN discussionHow does this compare to https://wasp-lang.dev/ ?
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on “Show HN: Amplication – Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API”Submitted How to communicate why your startup is worth joining as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI love new languages, and I love that you have all the basic elements of webapps as first class citizens. ....and then I saw that the page is still written using React and db access uses Prisma. They are not dependencies, you have to now about them, and their syntax and how they work. What is the incentive for me as a developer to learn both them and wasp? Especially since there are multiple places where the wasp la…
Comment linking /docs/language/basic-elements
on “Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps”Submitted Convincing developers to try a new web framework – the effects of launching beta as a story · 8 points
HN discussionthank you, fixed! The correct link is https://wasp-lang.dev/docs/
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on “Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps”Submitted New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThat link does not work, Page not found: https://wasp-lang.dev/docs/tutorials/getting-started
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on “Launch HN: Wasp (YC W21) – DSL for building full-stack web apps”Submitted Permissions (access control) in web apps as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI think there will always be a trade-off between "one way to do things" (opinionated approach) vs flexibility - the thing is, we need both, depending on the use case and the person using the language. But I do think we are falling behind with opinionated approaches. I am guessing that is because experts are usually the most prominent in communities, they are directing the ecosystem, and they prefer flexibility and p…
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on “One Way to Represent Things”Submitted How Wasp-lang reached 1000 stars on GitHub (detailed stats and timeline) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionsorry about that, seems like HN is doing some URL expanding which messes it up, this was the original URL: https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-learnings
Comment linking /blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-learnings
on “Our fundraising learning post-YC”Submitted We built a code agent that generates apps in React & Node.js, explained simply as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe project page at https://wasp-lang.dev/ is much more informative, I had no idea what wasp is trying to accomplish by reading the README.
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on “Wasp – A programming language that understands what a web app is”Submitted Show HN: Wasp Auth UI – The first full-stack auth with self-updating forms as a story · 4 points
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