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aardvark179.github.io is a personal blog at aardvark179.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Lightweight Fibres for TruffleRuby”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2018–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for early studies of using Loom fibers and delimited continuations on the JVM, including a TruffleRuby experiment. The only comment is a bare link with no judgement of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Lightweight Fibres for TruffleRuby
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's a couple of early studies of using it: https://aardvark179.github.io/blog/fibers.html/ https://medium.com/graalvm/bringing-fibers-to-truffleruby-1b...

    Comment linking /blog/fibers.html/

    on “Loom prototype available – fibers and delimited continuations for the JVM”
  2. Submitted Lightweight Fibres for TruffleRuby as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Better support for C extensions in TruffleRuby as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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