<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 13:39, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The reason I posted it is that it's the first time I've seen Oberon<br>
feature on HackerNews since I started reading the site. I just thought<br>
it might be of interest.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oberon has been getting a fair amount of attention on HackerNews in the last couple of years.</div><div>The most recent posts are: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=oberon&sort=byDate&type=story">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=oberon&sort=byDate&type=story</a></div><div><br></div><div>The people on HackerNews also refer to Oberon quite often in discussions:</div><div><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=oberon&sort=byDate&type=comment">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=oberon&sort=byDate&type=comment</a></div><div>You'll see a recurrence of usernames who are Oberon fans (including me).</div><div><br></div><div>On <a href="http://lobste.rs">lobste.rs</a> Oberon gets discussed once in a while: <a href="https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=oberon&what=comments&order=newest">https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=oberon&what=comments&order=newest</a></div><div><br></div><div>On Twitter not so much (although it is hard to define a useful search query): <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23projectoberon&src=typed_query">https://twitter.com/search?q=%23projectoberon&src=typed_query</a></div><div><br></div><div>There is a reasonable amount of activity in the Oberon language on Github: <a href="https://github.com/search?l=Modula-2&o=desc&q=oberon&s=indexed&type=Code">https://github.com/search?l=Modula-2&o=desc&q=oberon&s=indexed&type=Code</a></div><div>(it gets reconized as Modula-2 by Github though)</div><div><br></div><div>In Google over the past year: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=oberon+AND+programming+-theater+-game+-%22oberonit%22&tbs=qdr:y">https://www.google.com/search?q=oberon+AND+programming+-theater+-game+-%22oberonit%22&tbs=qdr:y</a></div><div><br></div><div>All in all I think there is a surprising amount of interest about Oberon on HackerNews.</div><div><br></div><div>--Erik<br></div></div></div>