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Because it's not obvious until visiting the Heaps page and clicking through to About: Heaps is built on Haxe. So you're complimenting it, right? (Your comment reads like a non-sequitur criticism if one doesn't know what Heaps is).

That said, I agree that Haxe seems to attract a good crowd. I've also worked with some very competent people who primarily used HaxeFlixel.

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I'm certainly not going to try to write comments assuming that people don't read linked page, that sounds tiring :-)

You don't have to click on "About Heaps", the landing page mentions HaXe inside the page <title>

I read the word "Haxe" on the front page and still had no idea what language Heaps was written in, because I didn't know Haxe existed until today.

Or click on the link to the source and see for yourself.

comment = "This is written in Haxe. " + comment;

Yes, that’s exactly the kind of thing which I think is a waste of time/effort.

Why? Its not hard and and very helpful.

And being helpful to readers is helpful for getting your point across.

I don't see the point in spending any effort helping out people who don't click the main link in an HN post.

You could equally say "It's not hard to click on the link at the top, to get context if there's a comment on HN you don't understand." It's a really low bar. Honestly, making HN a better place for people who aren't willing to click the link is just making HN a worse place for everyone else.

If I'm gonna burn time writing something clearly so anyone can understand it, it's gonna be on my blog, or answering questions on Stack Overflow, where that effort pays off. I know there are people on HN who dive straight into the comments without reading the article---I do that often enough---and it's not usually a big deal. However, if I don't understand a comment and haven't read the article, I'm not gonna blame the comment for that.

Interesting how you seem to think you are helping the community by not helping the community.

Its not a lot of work to have a quick line "HaXe (which Heaps is written in)...".

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