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Approxion
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Approxion is a personal blog at approxion.com about programming. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. 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
HN readers link this 2014 post criticising Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects and object-orientation. The one comment here disputes its claims about JavaScript.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I don't think you can find the stuff d3.js does in many standard libraries. The things in jQuery and underscore have gradually entered the JS standard lib, I think your information is outdated. > Coding in JS feels like coding in C if it was standardized without stdio.h and string.h. Have fun re-implementing strcat every time you need it. That's a really bad example, stdio.h and string.h are notoriously horrible. Sh…
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