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@nicoespeon's blog
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@nicoespeon's blog is a personal blog at nicoespeon.com about programming and web. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nico Espeon's posts on functional programming in JavaScript, covering immutability and pure functions. Comments cite them as support for points about purity and arrays.
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.
I write about VS Code, web development and life in general.
Most-linked posts?
- /en/2015/01/pure-functions-javascript/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-31
What Hacker News says?
Not sure what the downvotes are for. I'm not saying that order doesn't matter with pure functions (which is wrong). I'm saying that the notion that "order doesn't matter" (without qualifications) has been touted as a benefit of pure functions and FP -- and indeed it has. Wrongly, but it has -- and that's an impression many people get from reading such "introductions to FP". In fact, the author of the original post w…
Comment linking /en/2015/01/pure-functions-javascript/
on “Immutability is not enough”Submitted Meet plop, a little node package which quickly bootstraps new files as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWouldn't do it with variable, since it will make your function impure [1] 1 : http://www.nicoespeon.com/en/2015/01/pure-functions-javascri...
Comment linking /en/2015/01/pure-functions-javascript/
on “Javascript Arrays and Functional Programming”Submitted Convert a SASS project into LESS as a story · 2 points
HN discussion