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Brett Slatkin

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Popular posts: 7
Total points: 1,043
HN comments: 1,145
Rank: #2,048 personal

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1

Go's power is in emergent behavior

2014222 points133 comments Programming Languages details

What was the first thing you saw in Go that surprised you?

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It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go

2013149 points88 comments Programming Languages details

I discovered a profound outcome of Go's support for static type checking and duck typing: It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go.

3

Building a new functional programming language

2023137 points234 comments Programming Languages details

I hope that the true promise of functional programming for parallel computing can be widely realized.

4

The case for dynamic, functional programming

2022101 points115 comments Programming Languages details

If you're a fan of dynamic languages then you should also be a fan of functional programming.