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Is it just me, or is there an uptick in boutique programming language posts on HN lately? Not complaining, just curious if anyone else has noticed.
by auto 7y ago
Is it just me, or is there an uptick in boutique programming language posts on HN lately? Not complaining, just curious if anyone else has noticed.
- all2 7y agoIt's been ongoing since I got here (not long ago). I've even contributed some. :)
- TuringTest 7y agoI'd say it's a general trend in industry, similar to that in the 80's with their fourth generation languages. It happens when the current programming languages fail short of solving the most difficult problems the industry faces and programmers explore some paradigms that solve them nicely, but those paradigms haven't been integrated into a single coherent platform. This shift is pretty much happening with reactive functional programming - which solves asynchronous calls in the web -, and to some extent with large-scale module composition, which still lacks a good widely known solution.
- 6thaccount2 7y agoNot entirely...mostly the HN topic effect. Someone posts something on x obscure subject and people find it interesting and then research x on their own and post about x a lot.