Hacker News: soomtonghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=soomtongHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:22:04 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by soomtong in "Why Janet? (2023)"]]>This document was really helpful when I first met Janet:

https://janetdocs.org/tutorials

https://janet.guide/ (the author's one)

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:59:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369081soomtonghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369081https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369081<![CDATA[New comment by soomtong in "Why Janet? (2023)"]]>It’s been a few months, but I built a tool by Janet lang to communicate with an LLM via HTTP. Of course, I probably had Claude Code write it for me. It turned out better than I expected.

I was really impressed by how small the executable file was. I’d only ever done web development with Node.js up until then.

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