Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI learned JavaScript before "The Good Parts" was printed and more importantly after I had been writing a lot of Common Lisp. I remember being really shocked and excited when I realized how much JS had in common with lisp given that my expectation when learning it was that I was in for an awful time. I think the origins of the "JavaScript is Scheme!" meme have more to do with the fact that you can pretty trivially re-implement all…
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068360 * I'd be curious to hear if @munificent has changed his mind about this article at all since it was written. Since 2013, JS has added optional lexical scoping and continuations (promises). There is arguably a distaste for mutation in the community and among the major JS frameworks, not sure if that counts.
JavaScript, with ES6, will now have tail call elimination and lexical block scope with the let keyword. Looks like JavaScript is getting closer to scheme.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 294
- Total comments
- 161
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-07-19 | JavaScript Isn't SchemeFirst breakout · Best thread | munificent | 197 | 108 |
| 2016-03-06 | JavaScript isn't Scheme | amalantony06 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-11-13 | JavaScript isn't Scheme | tosh | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-06-02 | JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013) | vldx | 2 | 2 |
| 2018-04-25 | JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 84 | 51 |
| 2019-10-20 | JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013) | kick | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-10-20 | JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013) | kick | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-01-12 | JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013) | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-03-06 | JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |