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Aaron Stacy
Personal blog · aaronstacy.com/writingsprogrammingweb
Aaron Stacy writes aaron stacy's writings, a personal blog at aaronstacy.com about programming and web. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “If underscore was written in es6”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of an ES6 destructuring and recursion post. The one comment pushes back on the post's negative framing, arguing that the features it covers are a small part of ES6.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- If underscore was written in es62 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-28
What Hacker News says?
That seems quite a negative view. The features mentioned in the article are only a small part of what is coming in ES6.[1] The “fat arrow” syntax for defining anonymous functions is much shorter and neater than the cumbersome notation we’ve had in the past: items.map(function (item) { return do_something_with(item) }) becomes items.map(item => do_something_with(item)) and there are both expression and statement vari…
Comment linking /writings/if-underscore-was-written-in-es6/
on “Destructuring and Recursion in ES6”Submitted Reactive Programming and MVC (2014) as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted If underscore was written in es6 as a story · 3 points
HN discussion