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Barrett's Club
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Barrett's Club is a personal blog at barretts.club about programming and systems. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on Rust's learning curve and the trade-offs of its safety guarantees. The one comment here questions the post's claims about Rust's learning curve and benefits.
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?
- Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
What Hacker News says?
The first part of your statement feels true, although that's... unverified and lacks actual backing up. The second part of your statement is very debatable based on what safe means in this case, and whether it's an enormous benefit for a given situation. There's plenty of stories [0][1] about Rust getting in the way and being very innappropriate for certain tasks and goals, and those "enormous benefits" can become "…
Comment linking /posts/rust-for-the-engine/
on “Flattening Rust’s learning curve”Submitted Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four Horseman of Android Distributions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion