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Why much more articles about Haskell than popular ones like Java on HN?
- drallison 10y agoHaskell is much more interesting as a language than Java. And Haskell has its supporters within the HN community who are willing to inform those unfamiliar with the language.
- codygman 10y agoI think it's a few different reasons: - There is a lot about Java elsewhere - Java isn't so interesting and is probably used at a lot of HNers for work. - Java doesn't represent the future of programming to many, though it's advances in tandem with keeping backwards compatibility are respectable.
- probinso 10y agoJava is a supremely boring language, and was when it started. It is a pure industry project, it will eventually go the way of COBOL; although interfacing with it from other languages will become more common. The most interesting part of java, was the JVM, which has been subject to plenty of attention.