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Meteor Blog
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Meteor Blog is the company blog at blog.meteor.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2016, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “A New Chapter for MeteorJS – Acquired by Tiny”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Meteor's blog for JavaScript closure memory-leak explanations and for framework release announcements such as Meteor 1.6, 1.7, 2.0 and the sale of Meteor to a new owner.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A New Chapter for MeteorJS – Acquired by Tiny5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-10-02
- An interesting kind of JavaScript memory leak4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-09-13
- Meteor 2.0 Is Here4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-29
- Meteor 1.6 released3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-02
- Meteor 1.9 and New Roadmap2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-03
What Hacker News says?
The fix is to implement the closures properly, by only closing over individual variable slots. It looks like the engines are implementing closures by closing over entire windows of slots--that is, if two functions have the same scope, they inherit the _union_ of the variables they reference as a single window/block of variable slots. The original article has a much simpler explanation and solution: https://blog.mete…
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on “How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks”Submitted Meteor 1.7 and the evergreen dream as a story · 44 points
HN discussionYeah. I thought so too (and still think so). SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19798803/how-javascript-... Chrome bug report: http://crbug.com/315190 Meteor blog (linked in article): https://blog.meteor.com/an-interesting-kind-of-javascript-me... Live example (will crash due to memory leak): https://s3.amazonaws.com/chromebugs/memory.html --- The reason this exists in all JS engines is for performance; it…
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on “How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks”Submitted Meteor 1.5 as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThe Meteor framework has been actively developed ever since it was released and continues to have a broad, enthusiastic user base. Mr Goldstein would have known this if he had visited the Meteor blog ( https://blog.meteor.com/ ) and Meteor forums ( https://forums.meteor.com/ ).
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on “None of my projects want to be SPAs”Submitted Meteor 1.9 and New Roadmap as a story · 13 points
HN discussionReminds of Meteor 2.0 https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-2-0-is-here-867b0ab4f8df
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on “Blitz.js Now in Beta (Batteries Included Framework Built on Next.js)”Submitted How to stop Ubuntu Xenial from randomly killing your big processes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionOfficial blog post: https://blog.meteor.com/a-new-chapter-for-meteor-7b684320be4...
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on “Tiny Acquires Meteor”Submitted Meteor in 2017 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionReact is the heavyweight, no doubt, but it also feels heavy for smaller projects. VUE is a great option and believe it or not Meteor just announced 1.7 with at least one killer feature: Babel-free JS for modern browsers. https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-1-7-and-the-evergreen-dream-a... It's good to see Vue gaining steam as more options = better fit per project.
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on “Has Vue passed React yet?”Submitted Meteor 1.8 erases the debts of 1.7 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt’s still fairly easy to have subtle memory leaks in JavaScript code due to the way closures can keep variables in scope indefinitely. https://blog.meteor.com/an-interesting-kind-of-javascript-me...
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on “On Apple's Love Affair with Swift”Submitted MongoDB queries don’t always return all matching documents (2016) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAbout the first part of the question, Meteor is still a thing for several reasons: * It's a project with a strong community (364 contributors) that still has traction among developers (+ 8 stars by day on average over the last month, check the numbers here https://bestof.js.org/projects/meteor ) * They keep moving in the right direction: moving away from their own package manager ( https://atmospherejs.com/ ) to NPM…
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on “Ask HN: Is Meteor.js still a thing?”Submitted A New Chapter for MeteorJS – Acquired by Tiny as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo. JS engines detect of eval in the AST. It's why you can't rename eval and reference the current scope. const eval2 = eval; (() => { const a = 1; eval2("a"); })(); // ReferenceError: a is not defined --- The reason JS engines choose to share the closure record among all closures create in the function scope is purely for performance. function f() { const a = {}; const b = {}; return [ () => a, () => b, ]; } Both f…
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on “JavaScript garbage collection and closures”Submitted Meteor 2.0 Is Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot being that is one thing, but (at least in the past?) they implemented updates as non-atomic delete and insert, which is just crazy bad. It's one thing not to be ACID but having a query not return some entry at all because it's being concurrently updated is... an interesting design choice. Edit: link https://blog.meteor.com/-654b6594a827
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on “Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB”Submitted Meteor Free Tier Is Back - Introducing Meteor Cloud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSome of the criticisms of Meteor are out of date. Last year Meteor added exact code splitting, making it a cutting-edge and industry-leading JavaScript build tool. Also, the criticisms of Meteor as something that doesn't scale are out of touch with the current state of the product. Pre-2017 Meteor had difficulty scaling due to its method of oplog tailing wiht Mongo. But last year Redis-Oplog made that a thing of the…
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on “Ask HN: Is Meteor.js dead?”Submitted Meteor 1.9 (Node.js 12) and new Roadmaps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat older version of node? it support Node 8, please get your facts straight https://blog.meteor.com/announcing-meteor-1-6-abf30f29e2c6
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on “Ask HN: Is Meteor.js dead?”Submitted Dynamic imports in Meteor 1.5 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's a live and kicking :) You'd think majority people of at HH can do basic objective research and look beyond the FUD, but it seems not. Well, let me give you some facts, over the last two years Meteor added support for: - Out of the box dynamic import https://blog.meteor.com/dynamic-imports-in-meteor-1-5-c61304... - Importing NPM packages - React, Vue, and Angular as view layers - Latest release of Node JS: https…
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on “Ask HN: Is Meteor.js dead?”Submitted Use GraphQL to load from any database in your Meteor app as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> The browsers struggled with this for years. Arguably, they still do. function f() { var some = []; while(some.length < 1e6) { some.push(some.length); } function g() { some; } return function() {}; } var a = []; var interval = setInterval(function() { var len = a.push(f()); if(len >= 500) { clearInterval(interval); } }, 10); uses a very large amount of memory in all browsers. function f() { var some = []; while(som…
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on “Mjs – An interpreter for ECMAScript 1st edition written in C++17”Submitted How to use GraphQL with Meteor as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> With most of the original Meteor Development Group team having moved on to Apollo GraphQL, it’s time to pass the torch to a new corporate sponsor that will make the promotion and growth of Meteor their full-time business. https://blog.meteor.com/a-new-chapter-for-meteor-7b684320be4... Meteor got sold to Canadian company TinyCapital (Dribbble, WeWorkRemotely), so it's under new leadership/management.
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on “MeteorJS Releases v2.0”Submitted Meteor 2.0 Is Here as a story · 2 points
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