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You’re right. What makes this project interesting is the idea and the design, not Go, yet it would be much harder to get this publicity through that. And that’s
by mostafah 12y ago
You’re right. What makes this project interesting is the idea and the design, not Go, yet it would be much harder to get this publicity through that. And that’s exactly what I’m saying: why should people upvote just because of the language?
- zobzu 12y agoI think you mean "it sucks that we do that" and i agree. It seems to me this is an eternal problem with our large communities. With internet everything is a large community ;)
- mattgreenrocks 12y agoThis is the by-product of organizing ourselves by what tools we use, rather than what problem domain we immerse ourselves in. Tools are a means to an end. Attaching anything more to them is silly.
- mod 12y agoPeople can be interested in the link for two different reasons, now. Some people want to see a new editor; some people want to see the source code. I have a search set up that emails me daily about Clojure topics on HN. I'd be very interested to see new editors written in Clojure, and not very interested in using the editors themselves.
- loevborg 12y agoSetting up email alerts for Clojure stories sounds useful. Can you describe how you do that? I couldn't find a way to set up alerts, either using hn.algolia.com or using Google Alerts.
- redox_ 12y agoYou should give a try to http://hnwatcher.com http://hnwatcher.com, it's an alerting tool based on the HN Search API. I personally follow the "algolia" keyword -> it helped me get your question mentioning "hn.algolia.com". Enjoy ;)