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Bruce Eckel
Personal blog · bruceeckel.github.ioprogrammingculture
Bruce Eckel's personal blog at bruceeckel.github.io covers programming and culture. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bruce Eckel's posts on a model for funding open source projects and on whether Go could replace Python, R or Mathematica for numerical and statistical work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings about the New & the Future
Most-linked posts?
- Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-02
- Why Not Go (Golang) There? (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-24
What Hacker News says?
Bruce Eckel had some ideas about a better model to fund open source projects. https://bruceeckel.github.io/2016/06/20/a-model-to-fund-open...
Comment linking /2016/06/20/a-model-to-fund-open-source-projects/
on “On paying for software”Submitted Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI took Odersky's online course and used it for one project. It runs my home lighting system. My experience was definitely mixed. I liked the language for its ambition. I think the notion that OO and functional approaches are complementary worked very well for me. There were a lot of interesting ideas in the language and the ecosystem. However, there were a number of downsides. I came across a couple of bugs that wer…
Comment linking /2015/08/29/what-i-do/
on “Ask HN: What is your experience with Scala?”Submitted Why Not Go (Golang) There? (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been asking myself the same question. I often hear of Go as a better Python, so I was hoping to find a good numerical / statistical story for Go ... Bruce Eckel had a blog about this, I think you'll find the discussion around R / Python / Mathematica interesting http://bruceeckel.github.io/2015/02/15/why-not-go-there/
Comment linking /2015/02/15/why-not-go-there/
on “Ask HN: Learn Python, R? Or something else?”Submitted Why Python (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion