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"I wrote something in Go" is not off the beaten path for this site. Before that "I wrote a thing in Haskell", before that "I wrote a thing in Common Lisp".
by jacques_chester 12y ago
"I wrote something in Go" is not off the beaten path for this site.
Before that "I wrote a thing in Haskell", before that "I wrote a thing in Common Lisp".
- true_religion 12y agoSo your complaint boils down to HN is so far 'off to the side of mainstream, that X,Y,Z is common here so we ought to post A,B,C because thats even more uncommon'.
- learc83 12y agoI think his complain is that hacker news gets a bit cargo culty with trendy languages. It doesn't really matter how novel, interesting, or well-constructed the project is, if it's implemented in whatever language is popular at the time, it has a good chance of making it to the front page.
- Gigablah 12y agoThis is how sites with an upvote button work.