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paulgray.net is a personal blog at paulgray.net about programming and web. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

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Linked in a thread on React Hooks as an alternative design proposal built on pure functional programming patterns, offered as a way around hooks' order and conditional rules.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. FWIW, I wrote up an alternative proposal for hooks that was based on pure functional programming patterns. It's more complex but doesn't resort to the impure functions like hooks which cause the same order/conditionals rules. https://paulgray.net/an-alternative-design-for-hooks/ I think the next big framework will build on top of the declarative jsx-style rendering from react, while also providing pure abstractions…

    Comment linking /an-alternative-design-for-hooks/

    on “I love React Hooks”
  2. Submitted Approximating Haskell's do syntax in TypeScript as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Typeclasses in TypeScript as a story · 2 points

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