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Jim McBeath
Personal blog · jim-mcbeath.blogspot.comprogramming
Jim McBeath's personal blog at jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com covers programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2022, 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 Jim McBeath's blog for its post on delimited continuations, cited as a source for a Go coroutine library. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
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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What Hacker News says?
> Sure if you prefer static typing then JS is not for you. I did not say anything about static typing. Most dynamic languages are not forced by their specs to coerce disparate types into utter garbage. I invite you to type the examples in the Wat talk into a REPL for any other dynamic language and see how many of them produce exceptions. > Continuations seem to be rare among other languages you could choose. Persona…
Comment linking /2010/08/delimited-continuations.html
on “JavaScript right on the hardware”Submitted Scala Pros and Cons as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI found the continuations, and they are actually pretty nice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6125567 http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2010/08/delimited-continuati... https://github.com/jimmc/scoroutine - some of the examples in this are godawful, but you'll find that they still work if you rewrite them to be legible.
Comment linking /2010/08/delimited-continuations.html
on “Why Go Is An Excellent Modern Programming Language”Submitted Scala Case Statements as Partial Functions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scala Syntax Primer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion