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Elben Shira
Personal blog · elbenshira.com/blog · on HN as elbenshiraprogrammingdesign
Elben Shira's personal blog at elbenshira.com covers programming and design. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The End of Dynamic Languages”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on programming, including a satire of programming languages linked from the Lomuto's Comeback thread and a post on ClojureScript from the thread about holding back from it. Comments cite them without judging 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.
Most-linked posts?
- The End of Dynamic Languages3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-23
- Understanding Transducers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-15
What Hacker News says?
Very true. I like rich keys with non-trivial comparison cost. I even better like nested maps which no only are often useful in their own right, but also server to cache the cost of comparison wrt the original map---a domain-specific trie. Map are just far more the bread and butter of programming than sorting, and not just if you are using the one of the languages satirized by https://elbenshira.com/blog/the-universa…
Comment linking /blog/the-universal-data-structure/
on “Lomuto's Comeback”Submitted The Universal Data Structure as a story · 189 points
HN discussionCool, do write about your Elm experiences, I'd be interested to read! Unfortunately, yes, Elm is restricted to the browser. But this might change in the future. And although it is somewhat tedious to write ports, IME Elm communicates better with JS than ClojureScript. You can just drop any old JS library and write a port for it (it will be async, though). Sexps alone don't bother me at all. What bothers me (and I on…
Comment linking /blog/the-end-of-dynamic-languages/
on “What Holds Me Back from ClojureScript”Submitted Planjure: A* and Dijkstra's in Om as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Dynamic Languages as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Transducers as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Dynamic Languages as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Transducers (2014) as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Change Is Inevitable: Designing Software in a Chaotic World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Trifecta of ClojureScript, Om and Core.async as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Dynamic Languages as a story · 1 points
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