Curated / Beyond Tabs
Articles and discussions about the languages covered here, with editorial notes.
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Erlang
Hacker News · Published February 20, 2024
Tomte, HN user
In a February 2024 Hacker News thread revisiting a 2010 blog post, practitioners debated Erlang's adoption and technical merits. Proponents cited its use in scalable messaging systems like WhatsApp and Discord, and argued its pre-emptive…
Common Lisp
r/lisp subreddit · Published February 15, 2024
A February 2024 Reddit thread with over 150 comments discussed Common Lisp's limited adoption. The conversation clustered around three recurring claims: that the perceived reliance on Emacs raises the activation energy for developers…
Common Lisp
Hacker News · Published February 14, 2024
kryptiskt, HN user
A February 2024 Hacker News thread with over 300 comments discussed Common Lisp's persistent adoption issues. Participants raised a mix of technical complaints, including linked list performance, pathname abstractions, and inconsistent…
F#
r/dotnet Subreddit · Published February 5, 2024
Illustrator_Forsaken, Reddit user
In a February 2024 r/dotnet thread discussing F# use cases, practitioners highlighted its discriminated unions and type system for domain modeling, particularly in representing tree-like structures such as ASTs. Proponents, including user…
D
r/programming subreddit · Published January 16, 2024
BtcVersus, Reddit user
A fork of the D programming language, OpenD, was announced by long-time contributor Adam Ruppe, alongside a public repository and an open call for external contributions. Ruppe described the motivation as dissatisfaction with D's…
Haskell
Haskell Discourse · Published December 23, 2023
Dmitrii Kovanikov
A prominent forum thread dissecting an "OCaml after Haskell" blog post evolved into a multi-month debate on Haskell’s industrial viability. Participants, including library maintainers and Haskell Foundation members, identified ecosystem…
OCaml
Haskell Discourse · Published December 23, 2023
Dmitrii Kovanikov
A senior Haskell practitioner published an experience report after eight months using OCaml professionally at Bloomberg, contrasting it with eight prior years of Haskell. The author cited OCaml's "ergonomic mutability" and simpler,…
Lua
r/lua Subreddit · Published September 22, 2023
HG0973, Reddit user
In a multi-year Reddit discussion, developers debated whether Lua is best described as an "underrated" language, pointing to its embedded use in large-scale projects such as Vermintide 2, reported at roughly 1.2 million lines, as well as…
F#
r/dotnet Subreddit · Published September 18, 2023
Reddit user
A September 2023 Reddit discussion on r/dotnet, titled "Why don't you just use F#?", generated over 200 comments debating the language's adoption barriers within the .NET ecosystem. Proponents, including developers using F# for personal…
Elixir
r/elixir Subreddit · Published September 15, 2023
A Reddit discussion on Elixir's functional programming (FP) purity attracted extensive debate among practitioners. Proponents of strict FP definitions, citing languages like Haskell, noted Elixir's allowance of side effects via message…
Prolog
Hacker News · Published September 11, 2023
_benj, HN user
A September 2023 Hacker News discussion on The Power of Prolog garnered over 100 comments, with practitioners describing the language as a "mind bending" paradigm shift for constraint solving and symbolic AI. Multiple users cited…
Haskell
Hacker News · Published May 3, 2023
NaeosPsy, HN user
In May 2023, a Hacker News discussion examined Standard Chartered's reported use of Haskell in production, centering on their internal dialect, Mu. The bank's Core Strats team maintains over 6 million lines of Mu code, a strict-by-default…