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Arnaud Bailly
Personal blog · abailly.github.io/postsprogramming
Arnaud Bailly's personal blog at abailly.github.io covers programming. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Anatomy of a Haskell-based Application”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a debate on whether types help API design, as an example of an article walking through the architecture of a whole application in a typed functional style. The comment does not judge the post.
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.
Crafting code since 1994
Most-linked posts?
- Anatomy of a Haskell-based Application3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-17
What Hacker News says?
I think there is plenty of evidence (of how types help to design better APIs), you just don't want to accept it. I already mentioned LINQ and lens, another could be parser combinators and FRP (Observables in particular). Recently there was an article about a whole application: http://abailly.github.io/posts/cm-arch-design.html I can also recommend book Functional Programming in Scala, which talks about how FP helps…
Comment linking /posts/cm-arch-design.html
on “The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynamic languages”Submitted Anatomy of a Haskell-based Application as a story · 92 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Steps with MirageOS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Haskell-based Infrastructure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Dependently Typed Date as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Dependently Typed Accounting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of a Haskell-based Application (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion