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Alloy

alloy · v6.2.0 • deprecated

2
8.0

Programming language for software modelling

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Install trend
Trust Score 2/10
✗ Open source (NOASSERTION) +0
✗ Active development +0
✓ Licensed +1
✗ No auto-updates +0
✗ Deprecated +0
✓ Established (>1yr) +1
✗ Low installs +0

Review

Mar 11, 2026

Alloy is a powerful modeling language for software structures, enabling the exploration of complex systems and the detection of issues in security and design. It is particularly beneficial for developers and engineers working on intricate projects where precise modeling is essential.

Alloy is a language and tool for modeling and exploring software structures to identify potential issues.

Maturity: The project is mature with active development, though it has some open issues.

Community: Most Hacker News mentions pertain to materials science, not the software tool, indicating limited community discussion about Alloy itself.

Pros

  • + Powerful tool for software modeling and exploration
  • + Active development with recent commits
  • + Established use cases in various applications

Cons

  • - No auto-update feature
  • - Low community traction on platforms like Reddit

GitHub

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Stars
140
Forks
43
Issues
NOASSERTION
License
JavaLast commit: Jun 13, 2025

Community Mentions

hackernews
Jul 2025 Agents built from alloys
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Jul 2023 Some alloys don't change size when heated – recent work on why
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Mar 2023 AlloyDB Omni – run AlloyDB anywhere
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Feb 2019 Alloy*: A Higher-Order Relational Constraint Solver
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Feb 2015 An alloy of iron and aluminium is as good as titanium, at a tenth of the cost
Positive sentiment Negative sentiment Neutral / unknown

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