diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/hare-std/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/hare-std/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index e94dbaeed6cf4fac84fae11be0e09b17869d254f..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/hare-std/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#TODO missing script for building, see https://harelang.org/installation/
-[source]
-git = "https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare"
-[build]
-template = "custom"
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/harec/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/harec/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index d94249c0e8a6195709bed240d9f1bf35a59e8a12..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/harec/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#TODO configuration problem, can't recognize the Redox triple
-[source]
-git = "https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/harec"
-[build]
-template = "configure"
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/julia-lts/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/julia-lts/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index bc50e21faa77b04cce5e095360af2d43f0716ce6..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/julia-lts/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#TODO missing script for "make"
-# using the full tarball with dependencies included
-[source]
-tar = "https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/download/v1.6.7/julia-1.6.7-full.tar.gz"
-[build]
-template = "custom"
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/julia/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/julia/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f9735915dce4c6bf08439d3e8d59ba70cd6bbdf..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/julia/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#TODO missing script for "make"
-# using the full tarball with dependencies included
-[source]
-tar = "https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/download/v1.9.4/julia-1.9.4-full.tar.gz"
-[build]
-template = "custom"
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/pony-lang/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/pony-lang/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 157d5963b1268e962283bac064ad47207cbcf873..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/pony-lang/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#TODO maybe incomplete script, see https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/main/BUILD.md
-[source]
-git = "https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc"
-rev = "a161b7c97666f820bbacbb328d95dc820f353edd"
-[build]
-template = "custom"
-script = """
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE="cmake"
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=(
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-    -DCMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING=True
-    -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static"
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/"
-    -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}"
-    -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Generic
-    -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR="$(echo "${TARGET}" | cut -d - -f1)"
-    -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=On
-"${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"
-)
-cookbook_configure
-"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/vale-lang/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/vale-lang/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 313c08fe2fe43544920628bcf0867c8ba68ebf00..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/vale-lang/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-#TODO maybe incomplete script, see https://github.com/ValeLang/Vale/blob/master/build-compiler.md
-[source]
-git = "https://github.com/ValeLang/Vale"
-[build]
-template = "custom"
-script = """
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE="cmake"
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=(
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-    -DCMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING=True
-    -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static"
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/"
-    -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}"
-    -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Generic
-    -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR="$(echo "${TARGET}" | cut -d - -f1)"
-    -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=On
-"${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"
-)
-cookbook_configure
-"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/other/austral-lang/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/other/austral-lang/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index f49e021c7982112e964c6ff0b16f08d24fee1c8b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/other/austral-lang/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#TODO missing script for building, see https://github.com/austral/austral/#building-without-nix
-[source]
-git = "https://github.com/austral/austral"
-[build]
-template = "custom"