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Ayke van Laethem
Personal blog · aykevl.nlprogrammingsystems
Ayke van Laethem's personal blog at aykevl.nl covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “LLVM from a Go Perspective”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ayke van Laethem's blog for his writing on TinyGo, the Go compiler for microcontrollers, including its garbage collector. One thread cites his GC post as support for a point about embedded memory use.
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?
- LLVM from a Go Perspective3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-02
- How Goroutines Work in TinyGo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-25
What Hacker News says?
It does. https://aykevl.nl/2020/09/gc-tinygo Edit: but that said with sich constrained resources do people really use gc or even dynamic memory allocation often in embedded? I work embedded and it is usually standard practice to preallocate everything to avoid fragmentation. Unless it is a more performant device in which case I'll add the quotes to "embedded". But for those you could just use normal go, or python fo…
Comment linking /2020/09/gc-tinygo
on “Thirteen Years of Go”Submitted LLVM from a Go Perspective as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLVM from a Go Perspective as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the TinyGo playground simulates hardware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ayke van Laëthem – LLVM from a Go Perspective as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Goroutines Work in TinyGo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interfaces in TinyGo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goroutines in TinyGo as a story · 1 points
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