Nothing at all against OCaml, but it puzzles me where these HN micro-fads come from. There have inexplicably been a surge in OCaml posts on the front page over the past week.
Which is perfectly fine, except that I haven't gotten around yet to learning Rust (i.e. last month's fad). I'm still busy digging into Go (i.e. the fad from six months ago), having grown bored with Scala (i.e. ancient history, at least a year or two).
It is always exciting to see the fad spotlight shine on a mature language, since reaching production-ready status is usually the point at which languages stop being cool. However, the Haskell surge also rolls back around every few months, and they seem to think that OCaml isn't "pure" enough. So what to do?
Are these short-lived bubbles the result of coordinated HN ranking manipulation, or do brief convergences of interest just spontaneously bubble up by coincidence?
Nothing at all against OCaml, but it puzzles me where these HN micro-fads come from. There have inexplicably been a surge in OCaml posts on the front page over the past week.
Which is perfectly fine, except that I haven't gotten around yet to learning Rust (i.e. last month's fad). I'm still busy digging into Go (i.e. the fad from six months ago), having grown bored with Scala (i.e. ancient history, at least a year or two).
It is always exciting to see the fad spotlight shine on a mature language, since reaching production-ready status is usually the point at which languages stop being cool. However, the Haskell surge also rolls back around every few months, and they seem to think that OCaml isn't "pure" enough. So what to do?
Are these short-lived bubbles the result of coordinated HN ranking manipulation, or do brief convergences of interest just spontaneously bubble up by coincidence?
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