Ngn – a new back end programming language

Name: Ngn – a new back end programming language
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Author: j4w8n

by j4w8n·Feb 12, 2026·4 points·1 comment

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AI Analysis

●MidBold BetRabbit Hole

The Take

The landing page sells an ambitious combo: channels & threads with an 'await' syntax plus a builtin HTTP server (websockets, SSE), and promises safe, atomic shared state. Interesting as a playground for language design — but nothing on the page proves runtime safety, performance, or ecosystem maturity; the "AI helped build it" note is cute but leaves me wanting concrete examples, benchmarks, or a repo link before I'd take it seriously.

Post Description

Maybe the dumbest move of all time, but it's been a blast to build over the last few months - er, prompt AI to build.

Even with AI doing the coding, I've put in a lot of time thinking about how it should work, the syntax, features, etc. Building a language is a new domain for me, so I had to ask a lot of questions about a lot of things.