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Christian Charukiewicz
Personal blog · charukiewi.cz/postsprogrammingwebhardware
Christian Charukiewicz's personal blog at charukiewi.cz covers programming, web and hardware. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on JavaScript framework lifecycles and front-end code maintenance, including jQuery state management and the choice of Elm. The linked post is discussed in an HN thread on the lifecycle of JavaScript frameworks.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-31
What Hacker News says?
>And it's a breeze to figure out and read the code too: even when it's 10s of thousands of lines of code. Not at all. The issue with an application written in jQuery is a lack of sane state management. Forgetting to initialize (or re-initialize) values, not expecting things to be executed in a different order, and just poor organization in general led to mountains of runtime errors. Nowadays we use Elm. The differen…
Comment linking /posts/elm/
on “The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks”Submitted Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later as a story · 449 points
HN discussionCorrect. Elm's publicity issues stem from how closed off the leadership is. There's Evan (creator) and a handful of trusted others that have a huge amount of sway over how the language and, arguably more importantly, the core libraries develop. They also get special access to write libraries that rely on native JS code (something you can't do as of 0.19 even locally in your own projects). Elm is a great language and…
Comment linking /posts/elm/
on “Why Tcl?”Submitted Software Development on the Chromebook Pixel as a story · 14 points
HN discussion