Bob Nystrom personal blog
What Color Is Your Function?
I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me going in the morning quite like a good old fashioned programming language rant. It stirs the blood to see someone skewer one of those “blub” languages the plebians use, muddling through their day with it between furtive visits to StackOverflow.
- Points
- 410
- HN comments
- 615
- Submissions
- 6
- Cited by
- 177 commenters
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2015 | What Color Is Your Function? by jashkenas | 410 | 146 |
| May 26, 2026 | What color is your function? (2015) by tosh | 138 | 189 |
| Sep 26, 2021 | What color is your function? (2015) by xiaodai | 129 | 58 |
| Apr 2, 2018 | What Color is Your Function? (2015) by thinkloop | 109 | 45 |
| May 18, 2020 | What Color Is Your Function? (2015) by chrfrasco | 106 | 85 |
| Oct 20, 2024 | What Color is Your Function? (2015) by adunk | 53 | 92 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 215 Hacker News comments by 177 different people, from Feb 2015 to Oct 2026.
Most recent:
- ezst · Oct 2, 2026
- Kim_Bruning · Sep 22, 2026
- e1g · Sep 12, 2026
- mitxela · Sep 9, 2026
- xpe · May 6, 2026
- albertzeyer · May 5, 2026
