Oberon
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Aug 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used Oberon [1] in school, and it had a bunch of funky UI ideas. One I liked it if you clicked on the scrollbar”
used it in schoolon “Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventio…”
“This is a really cool thing.”
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“Surprised no one has mentioned Oberon in this discussion”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card) 3 mentions
- Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development? 1 mention
- Wirth's Revenge 1 mention
- Oberon et al., vs. Rust 1 mention
- Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 1 mention
Also written as Oberon System. Data: oberon.json. 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 7
“I used Oberon [1] in school, and it had a bunch of funky UI ideas. One I liked it if you clicked on the scrollbar”
“It is an OS.”
“This is a really cool thing.”
“Oberon is both a programming language and an operating system used mostly for teaching”
“Surprised no one has mentioned Oberon in this discussion”
Greetings again.. I have now read more of the book on oberon, and confess that I lost traction. It seems very clear that he is using objects, and my bias against them is very strong. I have heard it said that both oberon and plan9 are beautiful, but completely different. I'd be interested in your take on the two of them, when, if, each of them should be used, and why. I am currently attempting to install plan9/9front
“I think it's now considered an historical artifact.”