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Austin Zheng
Personal blog · austinzheng.comprogramming
Austin Zheng writes Episteme and Techne, a personal blog at austinzheng.com about programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2015, 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 thread on Swift and switch statements. The post argues for objects over switch statements and includes Swift pattern-matching examples. The one comment cites it only as a source for examples.
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.
What Hacker News says?
In Swift, switch is my new favorite tool, combined with Swift's enums and amazingly strong native pattern matching. It has absolutely changed how I write code, and makes me wish it were a tool I could reach for whenever I'm working in another language. Some examples: http://austinzheng.com/2014/12/16/swift-pattern-matching-swi...
Comment linking /2014/12/16/swift-pattern-matching-switch/
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