Various past comment threads: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

Various past comment threads: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1680149 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146306 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3963896 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2985601 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2985601 * [a handful of zero-comment and one-comment reposts I've elided] This is a very popular repost—as it should be, because it's a very good and well-thought-out article, and a surprisingly well-reasoned and well-written example of the "meditation on a programming language" genre of blog post—and each of the past comment threads is also worth consulting.