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Wing Blog
Company blog · winglang.io/blogprogramming
Wing Blog is the company blog at winglang.io, writing about programming. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wing's site for its cloud-oriented programming language, mostly in Show HN and funding threads. Most comments come from the Wing team answering questions about the language's design and support.
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.
Wing is a cloud-oriented programming language. Most programming languages think about computers as individual machines. In Wing, the cloud is the computer.
Most-linked posts?
- Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-11-27
- /docs/faq/why-a-language2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-06
- Exploring Cloud Hexagonal Design with Winglang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-02
What Hacker News says?
[I'm on the Wing team] Yes, but it's still in early days, you can see our support matrix here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/standard-library/compatibility-...
Comment linking /docs/standard-library/compatibility-matrix
on “Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language”Submitted Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language as a story · 51 points
HN discussion[I'm on the Wing team] The elevator pitch is that there are things we cannot do with existing languages, such as our inflights and their connection to preflights. This is because that if we used an existing language we'd have to support its legacy code and could not impose new limitations that are needed to execute the inflight system well. It doesn't mean that you cannot come close with existing languages, and ther…
Comment linking /docs/faq/why-a-language
on “Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language”Submitted Designing a Production-Grade CRUD REST API Using Winglang as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI need an elevator pitch on this (which is currently in my "yet another terraformy thing" mental bucket right now, rightly or wrongly!). I am interested, but when I look at the comparison with Pulumi - https://www.winglang.io/docs/faq/why-a-language , they have 4 lines of code in Wing, but the long Pulumi example sets up permissions. So how did the permissions get set up in Wing? The great thing about Pulumi is if y…
Comment linking /docs/faq/why-a-language
on “Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language”Submitted Winglang – A Programming Language for the Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussion[I'm on the Wing team] We currently support AWS, Azure and GCP with varying degrees of maturity. Since it's an open platform one can add any other cloud. More info here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/faq/supported-clouds-services-a...
Comment linking /docs/faq/supported-clouds-services-and-engines/supported-clouds
on “Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language”Submitted Wing: Programming Language for the Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe short answer is that there are things we cannot do with existing languages, such as our inflights and their connection to preflights. The full version is here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/faq/why-a-language
Comment linking /docs/faq/why-a-language
on “Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language”Submitted Exploring Cloud Hexagonal Design with Winglang as a story · 4 points
HN discussion(engineer on the Winglang team here) Hi there! Being able to break through the abstraction to apply these non-functional requirements is a MUST in our opinion. That is why we introduced Wing Custom Platforms that allow you to customize how resources are provisioned (as well as some other things). Giving you as much or as little control as you need. More on platforms here: https://www.winglang.io/docs/concepts/platfo…
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on “Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language”Submitted Wing Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you find the “infrastructure from code” idea intriguing, then maybe take a look at https://www.winglang.io It’s a new startup by an ex-engineer on the AWS CDK team.
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on “Show HN: Shuttle – Build Back Ends Fast”Submitted Cloud, Why So Difficult? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionElad here (the author). That's a very good point. If a developer decides to use `bucket.list().filter(x => x == myFile)` instead of `bucket.get(myFile)` the result will be fundamentally different both from a security perspective (e.g. `ListObjects` instead of `GetObject` on AWS), but also from a performance perspective (`list` is O(n) but `get` is O(1)). If you think about this is primarily an issue of software engi…
Comment linking /docs/tools/compiler-plugins
on “Cloud, Why So Difficult?”Submitted Wing programming language: A cloud-oriented programming language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGood questions. 1. You can read about it in this blogpost: https://www.winglang.io/blog/2023/07/18/wing-cloud-launch Specifically this section: https://www.winglang.io/blog/2023/07/18/wing-cloud-launch#wh... 2. It shouldn't do that.. which page did you visit?
Comment linking /blog/2023/07/18/wing-cloud-launch
on “Wing Cloud Raises a $20M Seed to Build a Programming Language for the Cloud”Submitted Hello, Winglang Hexagon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI can't help but think that, when past teams programmed mostly in assembly, a "Function" could be explained as a pattern. Having such "design patterns" seem like a side effect of our current tools' limitations. Maybe new technologies like Wing[0] (no affiliation) will help pushing us to the next generation of tools. [0] https://www.winglang.io/
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on “The Ambassador Pattern”Submitted Avoiding mutability pitfalls in constructs-based API design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud, Why So Difficult? as a story · 1 points
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