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John Lam
Personal blog · iunknown.comprogramming
John Lam's personal blog at iunknown.com covers programming. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited by HN commenters for posts on language choice and porting, including Steve Yegge's 2007 post on porting Rails to JavaScript at Google and remarks on Microsoft's language teams. The comments cite the posts without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Since 1997
Most-linked posts?
- John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2007-06-25
What Hacker News says?
> Not on the heavy consumer apps, eh? No, the Microsoft people I've met tend to be from the language teams, mostly because I'm working a lot with IronPython and F# in my codebase, so that's the kind of thing I go to conferences about. And, to be honest, working on language implementations in small teams for Microsoft sounds a lot more appealing than working on Windows or Office in ginormous bureaucratic teams. Then…
Comment linking /2008/03/steve-yegge-on.html
on “Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni”Submitted John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript as a story · 33 points
HN discussionIn reference to: http://www.iunknown.com/2007/06/steve-yegge-por.html Steve Yen already did it years ago! Kind of. The code looks pretty brief.
Comment linking /2007/06/steve-yegge-por.html
on “Google Code: Search before you spend 2000 hours porting Rails to JavaScript”Submitted A first look at IronRuby as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnother Google data point: Steve Yegge ported Ruby on Rails to JavaScript because Google works in only 4 languages... C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript. http://www.iunknown.com/2007/06/steve-yegge-por.html
Comment linking /2007/06/steve-yegge-por.html
on “Ask YC: Does your choice of language/platform play a role during an acquisition?”Submitted John Lam: IronRuby and Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby running MS Silverlight and in your browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LOLCODE! on DLR as a story · 1 points
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