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 orderOne of the particularly nice things about LFE is the team's commitment to documentation. Duncan McGreggor has done a great job.
A big thing is that v0.8 adds the (foo:bar 1 2 3) syntax; I tried using LFE for a while a few years ago and just found the (: foo bar) syntax too cumbersome. I think I had meant to hack it into LFE but in the meantime I discovered that Erlang's native syntax, while perhaps idiosyncratic in some ways, is pretty nice for daily use. The big advantage of LFE would be macros, which otherwise have to be done…
Every time I see these (LFE, Elixir, perhaps others) mentioned I feel sad that people don't seem to see the beauty in the Erlang language itself. Learning Erlang was a watershed moment for me and it had little to do with the actor model or OTP. That should not be meant to take away from these other projects that do interesting things. It just seems like people needlessly avoid Erlang because it's unfamiliar and they miss something amazing in the…
This has been posted a few times in the past, but I (re?)discovered it earlier today and have been having a lot of fun programming in it, so I figured I'd introduce it again.
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
- 3
- Total points
- 418
- Total comments
- 125
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-29 | Lisp Flavored Erlang | phaer | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-09-11 | Lisp Flavored Erlang | wirq | 4 | 0 |
| 2015-01-25 | Lisp Flavored ErlangFirst breakout | pmoriarty | 126 | 23 |
| 2015-08-09 | Lisp Flavored Erlang | lobo_tuerto | 4 | 0 |
| 2016-07-25 | Lisp Flavoured ErlangBest thread | indatawetrust | 129 | 44 |
| 2018-09-03 | Lisp-Flavoured ErlangLatest 20+ point return | tosh | 122 | 57 |
| 2020-07-28 | New LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang) Website | codeadict | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-08-07 | LFE: Lisp Flavoured Erlang | MindGods | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-11-23 | Lisp Flavored Erlang | slondr | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-06-11 | Lisp Flavored Erlang | vector_spaces | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-10-20 | (LFE:Lisp Flavoured Erlang) | rcarmo | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-07-23 | Lisp Flavored Erlang | andsoitis | 18 | 0 |