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Ilya Suzdalnitski

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Ilya Suzdalnitski's personal blog at suzdalnitski.medium.com covers programming. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Object-Oriented Programming Is the Biggest Mistake of Computer Science”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
6HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

One comment in a Show HN thread on the Buzz language links the author's post "OOP will make you suffer" and reacts to Buzz's use of objects. It does not judge the post's 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. Object-Oriented Programming Is the Biggest Mistake of Computer Science
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. > object ... You already lost me there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://suzdalnitski.medium.com/oop-will-make-you-suffer-846...

    Comment linking /oop-will-make-you-suffer-846d072b4dce

    on “Show HN: Buzz, strongly typed scripting language written in Zig”
  2. Submitted Object-Oriented Programming Is the Biggest Mistake of Computer Science as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Object-Oriented Programming Will Make You Suffer as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Adopting TypeScript Will Make You Suffer as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Is Functional Programming the Silver Bullet? You May Not Like the Answer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Object-Oriented Programming Is the Biggest Mistake of Computer Science as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted GOTO Was a Terrible Disaster. Mutable State is The New GOTO. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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