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Jos de Jong
Personal blog · josdejong.com/blogprogrammingweb
Jos de Jong's personal blog at josdejong.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Static Typing: The Good Parts [2016 (comparing Java and TypeScript)]”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jos de Jong's blog for his writing on static typing. One commenter cites his earlier static typing article as a related take on the same topic as a TypeScript post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
a blog about programming and web development
Most-linked posts?
- Static Typing: The Good Parts [2016 (comparing Java and TypeScript)]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-06
- Reusable Software? Just Don't Write Generic Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-07
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for your story. Funny thing is, just yesterday I wrote a similar article about static typing but from a different angle, see: http://josdejong.com/blog/2016/06/05/static-typing-the-good-...
Comment linking /blog/2016/06/05/static-typing-the-good-parts/
on “I Was Wrong About TypeScript”Submitted Reusable Software? Just Don't Write Generic Code as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architectural Changes in Math.js v2 as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Typing: The Good Parts [2016 (comparing Java and TypeScript)] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reusable software? Just don't write generic code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Art of Creating Simple but Flexible APIs as a story · 1 points
HN discussion