rendall 4 days ago

Small critique: you probably want its (possessive of "it") in the title rather than it's ("it is") as in:

> I like Svelte more than React (its store management)

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tln 4 days ago

With the original title, it's perfect, but after the edits its coherence is a little fractured...

Honestly I don't love HN's title edits. Why can't we have nice blog titles that start with why?

billforsternz 4 days ago

Ironic that this is one case when you don't use an apostrophe to indicate the possessing entity. I suppose the rule is possessive nouns only, not pronouns.

bravesoul2 4 days ago

Correct: when it's possessive, its form of it is its not it's.

Easy mnemomic: the apostrophe is for a missing letter, I.

bsaul 4 days ago

as a non english native, i find it incredible how many native english speakers do this mistake

zamadatix 4 days ago

If enough of us make this mistake then maybe the prescriptive half can drop the whole "possessive pronouns don't get an apostrophe" rule altogether :D.

The same goes for "alot", avoiding the use of "whom", and so on - I ain't gonna give up on them!

elpocko 4 days ago

I think they've given up on this, it's ubiquitous. I've recently noticed that a CLIP model (a neural network for image understanding) gave me image descriptions using "it's" where "its" would have been correct. Hundreds of thousands of dollars to train the thing; no one noticed, no one cared ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

okonomiyaki3000 4 days ago

Also `a lot` not `alot`