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Daniel Berkompas
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Daniel Berkompas writes Bits & Sundry, a personal blog at blog.danielberkompas.com about programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked in an Ask HN thread about moving on from Ruby/Rails, where a commenter discusses the author's struggles learning Elixir, such as loops and nested modules. The comment says nothing about the writing itself.
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What Hacker News says?
This is a more just WRT you fighting with Elixir: > Simple things like loops and encapsulation seem incredibly complicated. Something as simple as setting a value in a two-dimensional array... - Elixir doesn't have loops. You use recursion. - Elixir only has modules for organisation, and modules are just functions. It's just functions functions functions all the way down. You can nest modules in modules and so on, t…
Comment linking /2016/04/23/multidimensional-arrays-in-elixir.html
on “Ask HN: Fed up with Ruby/Rails; what language should I learn?”Submitted Is the Elixir Hype Real? as a story · 4 points
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