SWI-Prolog
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6recommend
0warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Aug 10, 2026latest mention
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“you can even run it directly in your browser as there's a WASM port”
“The Prolog is pretty nice the way I can now specify predicates for MQTT topic paths”
built own home automation systemon “Extending C with Prolog (1994)”
“SWI is about 10,000 times faster than my implementation. It's a work of art!”
built own embedded Prolog in Darton “Learn Prolog Now (2006)”
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Threads where it came up
- Learn Prolog Now (2006) 4 mentions
- Extending C with Prolog (1994) 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) 1 mention
- Chess Invariants 1 mention
- Prolog Coding Horror 1 mention
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All comments 9
“built on SWI Prolog’s WASM version”
“Just get Swi Prolog.”
“Prolog was convenient”
“you can even run it directly in your browser as there's a WASM port”
“The Prolog is pretty nice the way I can now specify predicates for MQTT topic paths”
“SWI is about 10,000 times faster than my implementation. It's a work of art!”
“SWI-Prolog specifically provides a fairly straightforward JSON-based server mode”
“SWI-Prolog can also be linked against C/C++ code”
“SWI Prolog (specifically, see [2] again) is a high level interpreted language implemented in C”