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Wow, thanks, that presentation is pure gold! The best thing about FP (and moving into it from the OOP world) I've ever seen: clear, easy to follow, based on a practical example and really presenting the sense behind the use of FP.

Popularity might not be the best indicator of quality, but it's a pretty good indicator of longevity of the project - and this is, I think, more important, in the long term at least.

All the technical superiority of an unpopular library will amount to nothing if couple of months down the road the author will not be interested in fixing some obscure, but important bug, nor there will be anyone to take on the maintenance from him/her.

Well, the problem is that YouTube, similarly to Google and Facebook, is becoming a monopoly (a natural monopoly I'd say), which seems to be a general way of how Internet works, and we should, rather sooner or later, start to think about some regulations (YT is also the future TV and TV is regulated) to deal with cases like this one.

I found this very naive. Yes, engineers might be this way, designers, the "low-level" people (for a lack of better term), but the directors, the board, the money bunch - they know exactly what they're doing and how it will be bad for many, but they're going this way because it's 1. better for their product, 2. easier for them and finally 3. because "why care about some minnows?".

> Creating new objects in functions and returning them should be avoided if possible. It's a Rust idiom to create the object in the caller and pass it into a function to be modified.

> immutability is the default

Haven't yet written any Rust code, but aren't those two things contradicting each other? I'd have thought that with immutability the most natural way to operate is to do pure functions (for uninitiated: pure function doesn't modify anything, can only produce new things).

> What's not super is that it's really the only kind.

well, there are some exceptions, like Ms. Marvel (http://marvel.com/characters/1017577/ms_marvel_kamala_khan/f...) or latest run of She-Hulk (http://marvel.com/comics/issue/49122/she-hulk_2014_8)

great to see it coming back. for those that still something tad bigger (also feature wise), but not yet a bootstrap big, there's http://responsivebp.com/

There's great piece from Ben Thompson on the inevitable trend of apps' price going to zero, worth a read: http://stratechery.com/2013/open-source-apps/

I know WebStorm, thanks, wanna try the competition :)

In my previous experiences with VS Express the installed version took about 10GBs of disk space and included plenty of stuff I didn't want or cared about, like various versions of MS SQL Server, support for VB, different runtimes for .NET, etc.

Anyone knows if there's a way to avoid that? I'd like to have "just an IDE", for node and web development.

> how important remaining secure from the government is to him

Can you provide examples? Or explain his alleged reasons? I glanced through couple of his posts and failed to see anything on that matter.

How this compares to TypeScript? At the quick glance I noted:

- more powerful type system (union types, hurray)

- support for JSX

- no windows binaries

- supports more of ES6 stuff

- ...but has no support for modules yet

- no generics (??)

How about performance? and workflow? Didn't yet find this: does it use a normal "write then compile" model like TS or has something like Hack (if I'm not mistaken it has a daemon running in the background, checking the code as you write it).

Wonder why FB decided to roll this on instead of using TS.