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Storm Country
Personal blog · storm-country.com/blogprogramming
Storm Country is a personal blog at storm-country.com about programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post in discussions of Rust types, arguing that parametric polymorphism makes programs easier to reason about locally and modularly, like linear control flow versus nested if/else.
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What Hacker News says?
To me, parametric polymorphism is much nicer for reasoning about a program locally / modularly. It's kind of like reasoning about a function with linear control flow vs reasoning about a function with lots of nested if/elses. You can do the reasoning once and be done with it. I tried to make a general point along those lines in this blog post, thought I think it deserves more extensive examples. http://storm-country…
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