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what are the two communities are you referring to? one of them might be frontend developers(ui,js,html,css,etc)? what is the other one? I'm a low-level guy and

by ausjke 10y ago

what are the two communities are you referring to? one of them might be frontend developers(ui,js,html,css,etc)? what is the other one? I'm a low-level guy and learning some web coding these days, so I can tell the difference views on software between HN and other places.

bbotond 10y ago
My guess is the FP (especially Lisp) crowd.
- ainot 10y ago
  The FP crowd is so vocal. Reformed math geeks who are trying to evangelize the world of programming to do things one way; their way.
  - Slackwise 10y ago
    > Reformed math geeks I presume you mean the Haskell crowd? The Lisp crowd is more about expression rather than "correctness" and rigidity. FP doesn't really have a formal definition. > trying to evangelize the world of programming to do things one way; their way. I think the world of computing is shifting towards a lot of async work, and if you've ever written large threaded apps, having too much state becomes the greatest of burdens. Clojure, for example, minimizes state and uses Software Transactional Memory to manage mutability.
    - sidlls 10y ago
      What's old is new again, it seems.
    - ainot 10y ago
      If only the LISP syntax looked like a programming language and made logical sense.
sidlls 10y ago
Mainly the group that thinks of everything in terms of the mathematics of CS, and the group who thinks in terms primarily of "just ship, ship, ship code 'pragmatists'." It isn't really divided by front end versus back end or the like.