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Oh that's clever! What a cool way to do your personal site. Definitely makes it stand out

> healthy primary income provided by the synergy between them and their community Definitely interested in this.

Haven't tried Reflux but I would recommend trying Redux before it. It is heavily inspired by Elm and has been very pleasant to work with. Reflux also bypasses the 'unidirectional d…

Well that's a bit disappointing, although probably pretty important to their business model. Will make the news of a jailbreak for PS4 that much more exciting at least :)

Oh I see - you just needed to be a licensed developer to get their version of it before, is that it? > You still can't do anything with it if you aren't a licensed developer. Not s…

Well this is pretty exciting. This opens up the door for PS4 games to be written in any language that uses LLVM as a backend, right? So in the future, PS4 games could be written in…

Glad to see another language that has chosen to avoid NullPointerExceptions. Some of you might take issue with the way it is implemented (special syntax vs general type), but IMO i…

> Digressing, were there any discussions about using var like in Swift (instead of let mut)? What is the rationale for not making that more minimalistic? I was interested in the an…

It looks similar to Elm[1] to me. Which is great as far as I'm concerned, I'm a big fan of that approach - the more exposure it gets, the better! [1] - http://elm-lang.org/

Here is a practical everyday example where languages that can represent emptiness in the type system come in handy. He ends up using pointers and mentions: "Using pointers also mea…

Ahh, now that makes sense, thanks! The HTML5Rocks article cleared up my concerns. For anyone reading this later, it was the section starting with this paragraph: Inline Code Consid…

> How would you like to be largely invulnerable to XSS? No matter if someone managed to trick your server into writing alert(1); , have the browser straight up refuse it? I don't q…

This exchange has really helped me understand more about Docker and why and when to use it. Thanks!

I agree, it is! I did a light comparison[0] between a logic programming solution to sudoku (Prolog) and one using constraint programming (Scala + JaCoP). I thought Prolog was a lit…

I for one thought this was a fantastic article, and quite well-written.

I would say it used a dead simple function as a device to help explain a bunch of other things.

Checked out the debuggex tool. Impressive!

Thanks! And I'll make a note for myself to put CoffeeScript in there too.

Great to hear a real-world example of the concrete benefits, thanks!

Author here, that's it exactly.

Cool post! Love the illustrated approach you took.

It sure sounds like it is! I'm a far cry from a Haskell expert unfortunately, so I'll have to leave it to someone else.

I took a long break from this series due to, well, cancer. But I'm cancer-free now and recovered enough to start blogging again, so here's the next part!