Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents • Hacker News Board

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by ChaseRensberger » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC

sdevonoes wrote: post #26

Why TS? The npm ecosystem is insane and insecure. Not a chance we are running this in our machines. Go/Rust way better choices. Besides, if it’s all vibe coded, it shouldn’t matter for the author

Not ready for production yet but ive been working on https://wingman.actor for quite a while. Its a golang based portable agent runtime with minimal dependencies.

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by egonschiele » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC

As other comments have said, it would be great to add what this does that existing solutions can't. I see the project has been active since Feb, and has < 150 commits. I'd assume this is still pretty immature. So why use this? I think more explanation is needed.

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by EdwardDiego » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:33 PM UTC

jdw64 wrote: post #33

sdevonoes wrote: post #26

Why TS? The npm ecosystem is insane and insecure. Not a chance we are running this in our machines. Go/Rust way better choices. Besides, if it’s all vibe coded, it shouldn’t matter for the author

I think the TypeScript ecosystem is more suitable for this. I do not think Rust is a bad language. But the agent ecosystem changes very quickly, and in Rust, assembling and reshaping agent workflows is difficult. Many people prefer Rust, and I understand why. It is a genuinely excellent language, and “Rust is a great language” is a strong message that attracts many developers. But as long as lifetimes exist, I think…

They also mentioned Go.

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by morphology » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

piskov wrote: post #6

If only there were great backend languages Go, C#, what have you. Nah, thank god we have javascript

You're welcome to port anything over to those languages. LLMs can do it in a couple of days at most.

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by 9cb14c1ec0 » Sat, May 02, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC

Ok, real question. What products are people actually building with agent frameworks? I get the utility of AI coding tools and generic chat apps, but that is the extent of utility that I've been able to get from AI. I'm looking for examples that are real businesses, not toys.

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by SpyCoder77 » Sat, May 02, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

bronson wrote: post #36

axpy906 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah don’t understand. It’s a lot easier to just build your own.

Right. So why would I use this?

If you want to hand make agent flows and have "software brain", this is better than using N8N.

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by doublerabbit » Sat, May 02, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC

jadar wrote: post #12

doublerabbit wrote: post #9

import { getVirtualSandbox } from '@flue/sdk/cloudflare'; You lost me there. Looked kind of cool too.

What was offensive? Was it the use of Cloudflare? Or the way the import was written?

cloudflare and the idea of would be "virtualsandbox"

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by minikomi » Sat, May 02, 2026, 11:59 PM UTC

spankalee wrote: post #21

wartywhoa23 wrote: post #16

So we get it, all stuff agentic will be named after various diseases, how apt.

Uh... a flue is not a disease.

It's like a heavier commone colde

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by d0100 » Sun, May 03, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC

sdevonoes wrote: post #26

Why TS? The npm ecosystem is insane and insecure. Not a chance we are running this in our machines. Go/Rust way better choices. Besides, if it’s all vibe coded, it shouldn’t matter for the author

I am using TS sandboxed in deno for all our agent code generated from a UI builder (inspired by OpenAI's own agent builder, and spits out the same code output)

Re: Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

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Post by gavmor » Sun, May 03, 2026, 12:59 AM UTC

piskov wrote: post #6

If only there were great backend languages Go, C#, what have you. Nah, thank god we have javascript

Anders Hejlsberg, who designed C#, is now leading Typescript development. Why would I not join him at the frontiers of his creative and intellectual energies?

Go is a nice language, but it's not expressive the way typescript can be. I'm not convinced, either, that coroutines are all that snazzy an abstraction at the application level.