I've noticed that my latest posts in the functional fundamentals series have not been particularly well read. In all honestly, I don't think they were particularly good either, and they were not subjects I cared about all that much.
In fact the requirement to order things in a series has been detrimental to just about everything. I've also started to think that a series trying to cover such a huge topic is not ideal for dev.to, were it might instead be better to reference the writings of others, such as this excellent piece on polymorphism, whereas trying to make a complete series myself would put me in a competing position. A series is better suited for a book.
Considering that I've also gone over most of what I believe to be the core of functional programming - except higher-kinded types, but I should have done that before Category Theory - I think this is a good time to wrap it up.
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I'm curious about the "not ideal for dev.to" part. I'm new around here and still trying to figure it out; true of most things, in fact, but that's too existential for strangers.
What is your take on where DEV is right now?
Dev.to lists posts by age and a little bit by popularity. I don't think this is a good model for a repository of knowledge. Rather dev.to should be seen more as a facilitator of "current events" posting. And a bit of an echo-chamber.
Thanks!
I can see that. Haven't been around long enough to figure it out for myself. I definitely find blogging platforms to definitely be geared more toward one-off topics of the day instead of serialization or, in your words, "a repository of knowledge". GitBook and Wiki is where I'm leaning for those things these days.
You've done more than most.