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BitByteWise
Personal blog · mathetake.github.io/postsprogrammingsystems
BitByteWise is a personal blog at mathetake.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Runtime code generation and execution in Go”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked BitByteWise posts, by the creator of wazero, cover runtime code generation in Go. One comment points to a post on that approach for running WASM on amd64 and arm64 with syscalls and unsafe.
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?
- Runtime code generation and execution in Go3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-20
What Hacker News says?
Yes. You need some syscalls and unsafe, but it's possible. wazero does this, on amd64 and arm64: https://github.com/wazero/wazero You can read more about the approach - from the creator - here: https://mathetake.github.io/posts/runtime-code-generation-in...
Comment linking /posts/runtime-code-generation-in-go-part-1/
on “Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go”Submitted Runtime code generation and execution in Go as a story · 160 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runtime code generation and execution in Go: Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extending Envoy with Handwritten Assembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runtime code generation and execution in Go as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Go as a story · 1 points
HN discussion