Clipper
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 23, 2025first mention
Jun 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“A big breakthrough for us was switching from dBase to "Clipper"”
intern at a small consulting company in the 1980sswitched from dBaseon “Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS”
“you'll be happy to know that they'll be much cheaper/free starting in December.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“2-10x faster depending on the operation”
“I've built a registry+pull client+buildkit builder to make it better.”
“I've built a fix for this”
“I've built https://clipper.dev to better handle ML/large images”
“I've built https://clipper.dev.”
Threads where it came up
- Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs 2 mentions
- Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026) 1 mention
- Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block 1 mention
- Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS 1 mention
Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“then Clipper”
“A big breakthrough for us was switching from dBase to "Clipper"”
“you'll be happy to know that they'll be much cheaper/free starting in December.”