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Bar Arnon
Personal blog · blog.i3arnon.comprogramming
Bar Arnon's personal blog at blog.i3arnon.com covers programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Duck Typing and Async/Await – Make Any Type Awaitable in C#”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its argument that async/await implementations in popular languages may later be seen as a mistake, though the one comment only quotes the opening of the post.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Duck Typing and Async/Await – Make Any Type Awaitable in C#2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-02
- TPL Dataflow Is the Best Library You're Not Using2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-24
What Hacker News says?
> I wonder if the advent of async/await in all the popular and upcoming programming languages will be seen, after some (buffering) interval, as a disaster of major proportions. And, I wonder how the programming world will respond to the disaster. I think that there is value in async/await as a concept, but that some language's specific implementations will be eventually seen as a mistake. My primary experience is in…
Comment linking /2018/01/02/task-enumerable-awaiter/
on “I'm not feeling the async pressure”Submitted TPL Dataflow Is the Best Library You're Not Using as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ConcurrentDictionary Is Not Always Thread-Safe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not All Beginnings Must Have an End as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Efficiency of ValueTask as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protobuf-net is broken around DateTime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Duck Typing and Async/Await – Make Any Type Awaitable in C# as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Issue with Scoped Async Synchronization Constructs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Return Any (Task-Like) Type from an Async Method as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TPL Dataflow Is the Best Library You're Not Using as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Async LINQ to Objects Over MongoDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LongRunning Is Useless for Task.Run with Async-Await as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LogicalOperationStack Is Broken with async-await as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surprising Contention in System.Threading.Timer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion