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Brian Hicks
Personal blog · brianthicks.comprogramming
Brian Hicks writes Hey there!, a personal blog at brianthicks.com about programming. Since 2014, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “State of Elm 2018”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Brian Hicks' posts on using Elm in production and on handling JSON in Elm, including one announcing a book on JSON handling. The comments discuss Elm rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m Brian Hicks. I work with and write about Elm, organize elm-conf, and run the State of Elm …
Most-linked posts?
- State of Elm 20182 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-10
What Hacker News says?
For god's sake, Elm is the only language I know that has _an entire book written on how to handle JSON_: https://www.brianthicks.com/post/2017/01/06/announcing-the-j... It's introduction is: "You know how it takes so much effort to produce even the simplest of programs when JSON parsing is involved? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could breeze right on by that step and get on with writing your business logic? This is wha…
Comment linking /post/2017/01/06/announcing-the-json-survival-kit/
on “Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later”Submitted State of Elm 2017 Results as a story · 83 points
HN discussion> It might have been fine if elm-format had chosen better defaults. Subjective. This is a time old discussion. Please read the linked issue. > Universal consistency of code format just isn't that important, consistency within a team or company is what matters, and you don't lose that by allowing configuration. When I come to an Elm project, I am able to read the code instantly. In fact, the majority (91%) of the Elm…
Comment linking /post/2017/07/27/state-of-elm-2017-results/
on “State of Elm 2017 Results”Submitted State of Elm 2018 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Elm, 2018 survey (typeform) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoding Large JSON Objects in Elm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Elm 2018: Results as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Elm Survey 2017 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional Sets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing elm-benchmark as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Modular Command-Line Tools with Click as a story · 1 points
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