Easel
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I use this for everything from backend system design to iterating on different UIs.”
“I look with envy at the smalltalks of the world, like Marvelous Toolkit, the Forths, or the Clojure based Easel”
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“Great documentation, by the by!”
Caveats and dissent
“the terrible closed source Easel App”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I've been making Easel”
“But the defaults are really good when the rollback netcode is in the language itself”
“We have a similar set of checks on https://www.easel.sh.”
“You can upload to itch.io yes”
“Using an IDE where all the tools take data and share data has dramatically changed my workflow.”
“I'm working on a beginner-friendly online programming language for teenagers”
Threads where it came up
- A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) 2 mentions
- Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) 1 mention
- ChatGPT outage – Resolved 1 mention
- Show HN: Easel – Interactive review boards for agent feedback loops 1 mention
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All comments 6
“I use this for everything from backend system design to iterating on different UIs.”
Very cool! Thanks for the detailed tech blog explainer. Some, hopefully constructive, feedback: - You mention "other games" several times. It would be so much more interesting to read, if you named them. Your readers may know that game but have no knowledge about those under the hood details. Like the user wordpad, I immediately thought about Planetary Annihilation when I saw rollback and multiplayer. - Your landing
“the terrible closed source Easel App”
“I look with envy at the smalltalks of the world, like Marvelous Toolkit, the Forths, or the Clojure based Easel”
“Great documentation, by the by!”
“But much more opinionated than Easel.”