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better implicit errors for scala

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better implicit errors for scala

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HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-02-11 22:38:43 UTC to 2018-07-23 03:39:47 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 52018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 302018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 23

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Feb 52018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 122018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 192018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 262018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 52018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 122018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 192018-03-19 00:00:00 UTC2018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 262018-03-26 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22018-04-02 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 92018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 162018-04-16 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 232018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 302018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC000
May 72018-05-07 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC000
May 142018-05-14 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC000
May 212018-05-21 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC000
May 282018-05-28 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 42018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 112018-06-11 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 182018-06-18 00:00:00 UTC2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 252018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 22018-07-02 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 92018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 162018-07-16 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 232018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC2018-07-30 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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harpocrates·Jul 23, 2018
I heartily recommend [splain][0] to anyone debugging non-trivial implicits. It is a scalac compiler plugin that, among other things, will swap out the horribly unhelpful "implicit not found" or "diverging implicit expansion" messages for an indented and annotated representation of the search tree that the compiler went through before giving up. `-Xlog-implicits` is good to use every now and then, but it quickly becomes unreadable for any decent sized project. [0]: https://github.com/tek/splain
In Scala: Understanding implicits

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