Factor: an extensible interactive language

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the best introduction to Factor and concatenative programming, with commenters saying it impressed them with the engineering.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google TechTalks

Topic

concatenative programming languages

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I just stumbled across this Google Tech Talk on [factor][0] last night! It absolutely blew my mind. The engineering looks to be top notch, and the video is 9 years old to boot! [VIDEO] Anyway, really want to give Factor a try for some personal …

• It's funny because 3 dropped in 2008, the same year Slava was demonstrating Factor in google tech talks which was a contemporary language to python3 that completely blew Python out of the water. [VIDEO]

• I see what you did there. ps: just in case here's a very enjoyable talk, not about, but by Slava [VIDEO] Beautiful and impressive.