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| Always Bet on Text (2014) (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) | ||
| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 570 points by asyrafql | software design | original thread | | ||
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| 1. | Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) | |
| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 355 points by walrus | original thread | | ||
Graydon Hoare, the creator of the Rust programming language, wrote his seminal piece on text in 2014. In it, he said "text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period."[1] Text is durable.
[1] https://archive.ph/FhG5L (the original either got deleted or login-walled, here is the archived version)
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=always+bet+on+text
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164001
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284202
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815829