re:factor
re-factor.blogspot.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
A blog about the Factor programming language, with release announcements and examples of rewriting familiar tools and tasks in Factor.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it as a way to learn Factor and see higher-level work in a concatenative language, noting it has been dormant for a couple of years.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage5 people · first shared 2010
- 2Factor 0.98 now available3 people · 9 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 3Factor 0.96 now available – over 1,100 commits2 people · 129 points · first shared 2013 · 64 comments on HN
- 4Factor 0.97 now available2 people · 92 points · first shared 2014 · 18 comments on HN
- 5Factor's Visual REPL2 people · 46 points · first shared 2010 · 8 comments on HN
- 6Comparing k-NN in Factor2 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 7Web scraping with Factor1 people · 79 points · first shared 2014 · 24 comments on HN
- 8Factor language disassembly1 people · 47 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Crafting Code in Factor1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 10Re: Factor: FizzBuzz1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Cuckoo Filters1 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Re: Factor: TF-IDF1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Factor 0.95 now available (over 2,500 commits)1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14Github supports Factor1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15Presentations in Factor1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
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mr_luc · 2013-10-13
I've been playing around with Factor when I have a moment.
I was impressed by reading the excellent 're: factor' blog; he often re-implements small unix utilities in Factor, for instance.
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/
mumblemumble · 2021-02-20
re:factor is a nice blog for seeing how higher-level things can be done in a concatenative language. It's been dormant for a couple years, but the archives have some interesting examples of redoing well-known stuff in Factor.
https://re-factor.blogspot.com/
For example, here's a gopher server: https://re-factor.blogspot.com/2016/10/gopher-server.html
undecidabot · 2018-08-11
For those who want a taste of Factor, check: http://re-factor.blogspot.com/ (You might want to scroll down past the release notes.)
otoburb · 2015-08-30
One of the core developers actively blogs[1] about Factor. His articles are all written for audiences intent on learning the language. Many of the posts are inspired by small snippets of code written in other languages that are then written in idiomatic Factor.
[1] http://re-factor.blogspot.com/
yebyen · 2013-08-15
I loved this blog. BluishCoder was my goto for Factor articles when I was learning about Factor. At least I thought it was. Browsing the titles under the Factor tag, I don't find one article I recognize, and all of the links I've tried clicking through wind up at nginx 404.
Sadly! Books and their covers... I'm sure they were good.
I did find the article I was thinking of, but today keyword search has failed me. I was looking for "monotonically increasing timers" and the correct search was "fast now"
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2011/03/fast-now.html
Chris D, are you here reading comments? Can you bring back your Factor articles?
jckarter · 2010-08-22
When you're done with that you should also read through the examples John Benediktsson's been posting to his blog: http://re-factor.blogspot.com
tenken · 2017-03-24
mrjbq7 · 2014-06-10
A Factor version compares favorably at 13 lines of code, and as fast as the parallel OCaml version.
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2014/06/comparing-k-nn-in-factor.html
rhdoenges · 2013-04-21
I like the old logo better, http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-logo.html is waaay too busy.
weavejester · 2011-12-07
Factor's REPL can handle images, colours and fonts:
http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2010/09/visual-repl.html
I've been meaning to write something like Factor's REPL for Clojure, but haven't gotten around to it yet.