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Matt Diephouse

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Matt Diephouse's personal blog at matt.diephouse.com covers programming. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Value-Oriented Programming (2018)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
7HN people?
2017–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts on value-oriented programming and on implementing microKanren-style logic programming in Swift. One commenter cites the value-oriented post as a very quick introduction; no comment judges 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?

  1. Value-Oriented Programming (2018)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-30
  2. Property Tests for Legacy Code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. accountLost · 2020-10-05
    See also https://matt.diephouse.com/2018/08/value-oriented-programmin... for a very quick introduction.

    Comment linking /2018/08/value-oriented-programming/

    on “Principles of Data Oriented Programming”
  2. pcr910303 · 2020-05-02

    Submitted Value-Oriented Programming (2018) as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  3. mdiep · 2018-12-17
    I made a Swift library, Logician ( https://github.com/mdiep/Logician ), based on microKanren with the help of these links. I also wrote about how it works with Swift: https://matt.diephouse.com/2016/12/logic-programming-in-swif... I haven't had the chance to build anything that uses them. But having become familiar, I think there are lots of potential applications. I always thought that Prolog was strange. Logic pro…

    Comment linking /2016/12/logic-programming-in-swift/

    on “Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming”
  4. glhaynes · 2018-08-30

    Submitted Value-Oriented Programming as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  5. whack · 2020-02-28

    Submitted Property Tests for Legacy Code as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. pcr910303 · 2020-05-21

    Submitted You Might Not Want a Boolean as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. pcr910303 · 2020-05-11

    Submitted Eliminating Impossible States with a Never Type as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. hyperpape · 2017-09-08

    Submitted A Smarter Package Manager as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Austin_Conlon · 2020-02-26

    Submitted Property Tests for Legacy Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Austin_Conlon · 2019-12-04

    Submitted Adopting Value Types: Networking as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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