{"slug": "moment", "name": "Moment", "category": "dev-libs", "category_name": "Libraries and frameworks", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 2, "score": 1.222, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-12-29", "latest": "2026-08-11", "why": "NoFusion and Moment apps for things I will want to edit later", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "NoFusion and Moment apps for things I will want to edit later", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "moment.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://momentjs.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Moment", "Moment.js"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 788226370, "item_id": 49264148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264148", "by": "ebbi", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "NoFusion and Moment apps for things I will want to edit later", "excerpt": "They just released a major update, but it's not something I would pay a subscription for. I paid the lifetime fee in it's early days, but that doesn't unlock the new updates sadly. I use Analogue for day to day capture, and NoFusion and Moment apps for things I will want to edit later. All with one-time purchase. I don't mind paying for quality apps, but I do have subscription fatigue now.", "context": "prefers one-time purchase apps", "use_case": "capture photos for editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"}, {"id": 766256080, "item_id": 47891005, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891005", "by": "crashabr", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their pitch so I'm following them with fingers crossed.", "excerpt": "I'm following a startup who does just that: https://www.moment.dev/docs It's still early stage, but I love their pitch so I'm following them with fingers crossed.", "context": "", "use_case": "visible AI collaboration in knowledge base", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Tolaria \u2013 open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"}, {"id": 745575024, "item_id": 46598439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598439", "by": "noduerme", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Moment.", "excerpt": "I use Moment. And a few years later, I'm still using Moment. And now I'm still using Moment. And now...", "context": "", "use_case": "date handling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Date is out, Temporal is in"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 745451152, "item_id": 46590697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590697", "by": "gardnr", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I remember running into the moment.js issue where my package size doubled by adding a date library", "excerpt": "I remember running into the moment.js issue where my package size doubled by adding a date library: https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/3376", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Date is out, Temporal is in"}]}], "who": [{"by": "ebbi", "context": "prefers one-time purchase apps", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264148", "date": "2026-08-11"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["interactive docs", "capture photos for editing", "visible ai collaboration in knowledge base", "date handling"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 756128688, "item_id": 47258043, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258043", "by": "antics", "date": "2026-03-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Moment is distinctive because (1) it's natively programmable", "excerpt": "Moment is distinctive because (1) it's natively programmable, and (2) has a native, high-performance, live collaborative editing. For (1), programmability is why our templates[1] are generally so rich. See, e.g, our NES emulator[2] or our SQLite Explorer[3], both of which would be vastly harder to accomplish in Notion. It's even much harder in Obsidian, which is Markdown-first! 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Also include it is a 12-step contrast-sensitive color palette generator for said imaginary colors, which would allow you to make websites and (say) vscode themes using e", "context": "", "use_case": "interactive docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Olo (Color)"}, {"id": 788226370, "item_id": 49264148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264148", "by": "ebbi", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "NoFusion and Moment apps for things I will want to edit later", "excerpt": "They just released a major update, but it's not something I would pay a subscription for. I paid the lifetime fee in it's early days, but that doesn't unlock the new updates sadly. I use Analogue for day to day capture, and NoFusion and Moment apps for things I will want to edit later. All with one-time purchase. I don't mind paying for quality apps, but I do have subscription fatigue now.", "context": "prefers one-time purchase apps", "use_case": "capture photos for editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"}, {"id": 766256080, "item_id": 47891005, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891005", "by": "crashabr", "date": "2026-04-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love their pitch so I'm following them with fingers crossed.", "excerpt": "I'm following a startup who does just that: https://www.moment.dev/docs It's still early stage, but I love their pitch so I'm following them with fingers crossed.", "context": "", "use_case": "visible AI collaboration in knowledge base", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Tolaria \u2013 open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"}, {"id": 757545137, "item_id": 47346571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346571", "by": "jitl", "date": "2026-03-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I wouldn't be surprised to see the Rust ecosystem eventually move to Temporal's api, given v8 (Chrome) adopted Boa's rust implementation temporal_rs (https://docs.rs/temporal_rs/latest/temporal_rs/), see burntsushi's arguments for the need of a better datetime handling library in Rust (https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff/blob/master/DESIGN.md#why-build-another-datetime-library). I'm not sure his jiff create will be th", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript"}, {"id": 745575024, "item_id": 46598439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598439", "by": "noduerme", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Moment.", "excerpt": "I use Moment. And a few years later, I'm still using Moment. And now I'm still using Moment. And now...", "context": "", "use_case": "date handling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Date is out, Temporal is in"}, {"id": 745451152, "item_id": 46590697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590697", "by": "gardnr", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I remember running into the moment.js issue where my package size doubled by adding a date library", "excerpt": "I remember running into the moment.js issue where my package size doubled by adding a date library: https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/3376", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Date is out, Temporal is in"}, {"id": 742836817, "item_id": 46427301, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427301", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I wouldn't want Moment for", "excerpt": "Whether that's true about React and Moment varies on a case-by-case basis. If you're building something simple like a contact form React may not be the right choice. If you're building something like Trello that calculation is different. Likewise, I wouldn't want Moment for https://tools.simonwillison.net/california-clock-change but I might want it for something that needs its more advanced features.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Karpathy on Programming"}]}