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F# was in the title when I upvoted. Someone changed it.

by melling 7y ago

marmaduke 7y ago
That's pretty yucky since anything written in Rust gets to keep that detail in its title
- dragonsh 7y ago
  Rewriting code in rust is new fashion, so for the purpose of publicity anyone writing anything in Rust will put the language name in headline. But I believe this trend started with Go lang and later picked up by rust community. It's nice to see some F# code. I am happy a lot of new programming language innovations happening, I did not pick up rust, because the programming paradigm is similar to other programming language with focus on memory safety. I will try F# may be later, these days more busy with learning lisp as many people recommend it to become a better programmer even though it's not popular as Go and Rust.
  - dtech 7y ago
    F# is in the title, but it was changed after posting on HN
  - FridgeSeal 7y ago
    > But I believe this trend started with Go lang I thought it started with JavaScript, there was a while there where everything was getting done in JS, and that’s arguably more egregious than Rust.
    - dragonsh 7y ago
      You might be right, when node js was becoming popular. Personally I observed it only when I myself started programming in go, at one point in time in the early 1.0 version.
- fortran77 7y ago
  The Rust people have taken over YCombinator. It's sad.
  - jimbob45 7y ago
    The Rust people understand that language adoption is a game of popularity, not a meritocracy as we'd all like to imagine. Can you blame them for doing all they can for their language to win?
grndn 7y ago
The original title is "Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#." I don't know why the F# part was removed either. HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.". Having read the article, I don't think the "in 100 lines of F#" part is misleading, nor is it Buzzfeed-style clickbait.
- pvg 7y ago
  "in 100 lines", especially when not strictly accurate, is a nerdier version of "9 zany reasons ..." and the like. HN's title star chamber is also generally down on magic numbers in titles.

F# was in the title when I upvoted. Someone changed it.

marmaduke 7y ago

That's pretty yucky since anything written in Rust gets to keep that detail in its title

dragonsh 7y ago
Rewriting code in rust is new fashion, so for the purpose of publicity anyone writing anything in Rust will put the language name in headline. But I believe this trend started with Go lang and later picked up by rust community. It's nice to see some F# code. I am happy a lot of new programming language innovations happening, I did not pick up rust, because the programming paradigm is similar to other programming language with focus on memory safety. I will try F# may be later, these days more busy with learning lisp as many people recommend it to become a better programmer even though it's not popular as Go and Rust.
- dtech 7y ago
  F# is in the title, but it was changed after posting on HN
- FridgeSeal 7y ago
  > But I believe this trend started with Go lang I thought it started with JavaScript, there was a while there where everything was getting done in JS, and that’s arguably more egregious than Rust.
  - dragonsh 7y ago
    You might be right, when node js was becoming popular. Personally I observed it only when I myself started programming in go, at one point in time in the early 1.0 version.
fortran77 7y ago
The Rust people have taken over YCombinator. It's sad.
- jimbob45 7y ago
  The Rust people understand that language adoption is a game of popularity, not a meritocracy as we'd all like to imagine. Can you blame them for doing all they can for their language to win?

grndn 7y ago

The original title is "Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F#." I don't know why the F# part was removed either. HN guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.". Having read the article, I don't think the "in 100 lines of F#" part is misleading, nor is it Buzzfeed-style clickbait.

pvg 7y ago
"in 100 lines", especially when not strictly accurate, is a nerdier version of "9 zany reasons ..." and the like. HN's title star chamber is also generally down on magic numbers in titles.