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Bitwalker
Personal blog · bitwalker.org/postsprogrammingsystems
Bitwalker is a personal blog at bitwalker.org about programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Functional Imperative Programming with Elixir (2018)”. The last post was in 2018, 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 Learn Functional Programming Visually thread. The post discusses how functional languages describe themselves and look, using Rebol and Red as 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.
Stuff about things
Most-linked posts?
- Functional Imperative Programming with Elixir (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
What Hacker News says?
> That is how those languages describe themselves and it’s what they look like Neither Red [1] nor Rebol [2] actually does that; the Rebol family of languages tends to describe itself as paradigm-neutral or multi-paradigm, but historically stays close to imperative constructs and lacks mainstream FP support (e.g. Red doesn't have closures, currying, and tail-call optimization). If you really look at a generic Rebol…
Comment linking /posts/2018-03-18-functional-imperative-programming-with-elixir/
on “Learn Functional Programming Visually”Submitted Functional Imperative Programming with Elixir (2018) as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir/Erlang Clustering in Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distillery vs. Exrm vs. Relx as a story · 1 points
HN discussion