Wow, and why exactly did this make into HN first page? Because it's Javascript?
Any good reason this is on the front page, other that:
Google made JS faster > Google made their NLP library SyntaxNet open-source > NLP_compromise is a NLP JS library so it has to be top news
?
How this library can even appear to be anything new?
Have you never explored the NLP field? I guess downvoters never did, I have to other way to understand it.
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Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
I never did. I was just questioning on the popularity it got on HN, not on it being inappropriate.
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted.
Ok, I apologize for that. My mistake. But hey, may I know the reasons why do you think that my opinion is wrong, anyone, and specifically you @cskau, if you do? Eagerly waiting for it but I fear I'll receive no on-context answers :(
1. JavaScript is widely known and used. Thus, anything JavaScript attracts more attention than similar projects in other languages, especially if it's outside the box of the usual webby stuff.
2. The API on this library looks very intuitive and utilitarian. It doesn't get much easier than .people(), .topics(), etc. People can see themselves actually using this.