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Stephen Searles's personal blog at stephensearles.com covers programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Reasons you should not use Martini · Stephen Searles”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2014

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Why HN links it

Linked in a Gogs thread, the comment discusses the Go web framework Macaron and its Martini-inspired dependency injection and runtime reflection style, plus one developer's unresponsiveness to an issue. It does not judge the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Reasons you should not use Martini · Stephen Searles
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. I tried to get the developer to fix my issue, or even consider it as an issue, but got no where. I'll admit, I don't speak for the community as a whole, but about every go developer I've spoken to has the same feeling I do, and it's echoed all over the web. Macaron, the central framework, is inspired by, and rather heavily follows, the style of Martini. It's dependency injection and runtime reflection code style is…

    Comment linking /three-reasons-you-should-not-use-martini/

    on “Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab”
  2. Submitted Parsing PHP in Go as a story · 143 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Three reasons you should not use Martini as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted I’ve Got All This PHP. Now What? – Parsing PHP in Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Three reasons you should not use Martini as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Reasons you should not use Martini · Stephen Searles as a story · 1 points

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