" 'Clojure in Clojure' == writing the compiler and the core data structures of Clojure in Clojure (vs Java). This is a cool thing to aim for."
Once upon a time the front page of HN would have a lot of articles on Erlang voted up . One day PG even requested a few articles on Erlang (iirc) and the whole of the front page was Erlang-ey for a day.
These days it seems to be articles on Clojure that always get (the same?) 12 or so votes rapidly to make it to the front page. Clojure 1.2 released, Clojure 1.2 and beyond, clojure conference, Clojure-in-Clojure. Keep em coming ;-)
It is on topic for HN.
Just wondering what exactly causes these pahases have Erlang vanished from HN and Clojure appears, soon to disappear no doubt. Did we ever have a Haskell phase?
I think everyone here has heard how great Lisp is from PG, and now Clojure is finally an accessible Lisp. I do quite like it myself but I agree that there's been an unusually large number of Clojure articles making the front page, even if they aren't very interesting unto themselves.
A lot of people are interested in programming here. Thus a lot of people are interested in languages. A lot of people here are also specifically interested in Lisp. A lot of interesting things are happening in Clojure. Therefore a lot of Clojure related articles are of interest to people here.
I can somehow relate to this from my own position. I've been quite a fan of Clojure, got to the point where I even wrote a few apps, but 1-2 years later I found that somehow it didn't make it into my production code. No idea why, really, I am just as impressed by it as always. Maybe the distance between writing code and writing production code is much greater?
" 'Clojure in Clojure' == writing the compiler and the core data structures of Clojure in Clojure (vs Java). This is a cool thing to aim for."
Once upon a time the front page of HN would have a lot of articles on Erlang voted up . One day PG even requested a few articles on Erlang (iirc) and the whole of the front page was Erlang-ey for a day.
These days it seems to be articles on Clojure that always get (the same?) 12 or so votes rapidly to make it to the front page. Clojure 1.2 released, Clojure 1.2 and beyond, clojure conference, Clojure-in-Clojure. Keep em coming ;-)
It is on topic for HN.
Just wondering what exactly causes these pahases have Erlang vanished from HN and Clojure appears, soon to disappear no doubt. Did we ever have a Haskell phase?