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That's true but the HN algorithm for deciding what articles make it to the front page has itself become very political. For example, the amount of articles abo
by jondubois 9y ago
That's true but the HN algorithm for deciding what articles make it to the front page has itself become very political.
For example, the amount of articles about programming languages like Rust or Elixir is disproportionate compared to their actual relevance in the industry.
HN has a very strong bias for functional programming.
You almost never hear about Go or Node.js anymore except when there is a major release but these languages are extremely widespread and proven and there is a lot of very interesting stuff happening in these communities that HN seems to ignore.
- pavlov 9y agoWhen Go and Node were new, they benefited from the same disproportionate level of interest here as Rust or Elixir currently do. It's just the nature of the industry (and people in general). New and different is always more interesting than old but incrementally improved.
- OtterCoder 9y agoI would agree with Pavlov. I would also say that Rust is a much more disruptive and interesting language from a technical perspective. Node is simply another iteration on quick prototyping languages, like Ruby before it. There's not a lot of new stuff to say about its design. Projects built in node show up in the feed all the time though.
- naasking 9y ago> For example, the amount of articles about programming languages like Rust or Elixir is disproportionate compared to their actual relevance in the industry. But not to their possible relevance.