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Captcha Check is a personal blog at graydon2.dreamwidth.org about programming and systems. Since 2014, 129 different Hacker News readers have linked it 173 times, most often “Always Bet on Text (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Graydon Hoare's blog for his posts on Rust's design history, 'Always Bet On Text', and the 'Not Rocket Science Rule' of software engineering, which are cited across many threads.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- Called a 'good overview' of the problem and original bors; two latest posts recommended to read 'for context'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Always Bet on Text (2014)17 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2015-11-03
- The Rust I Wanted Had No Future16 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2023-06-05
- The Not Rocket Science Rule of Software Engineering (2014)14 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2019-11-20
- Always bet on text9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2014-10-13
- What Next? (2017)8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-06-06
- The Not Rocket Science Rule Of Software Engineering6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-08-20
- Interactive scientific computing: Goldilocks languages5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-07-13
- Rust is mostly safety5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-29
- Let Maintainers Be Maintainers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-03
- Graydon Hoare on Ousterhout's Dichotomy and Julia4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-11-05
What Hacker News says?
This is not how YouTube, or people, or virality work though. The fact there is some useful educational content is a byproduct of the machine of lucrative trash of the capitalist hellhole spiral, and the written word will always prevail comparatively. You can always bet on text. https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html Also, as you likely know, YouTube is owned by Google so it’s very silly to say it’s “more import…
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on “How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)”Submitted Always Bet on Text (2014) as a story · 570 points
HN discussion> A picture can tell a thousand words FWIW, this is generally false: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
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on “Architecture.md”Submitted Rust is mostly safety as a story · 487 points
HN discussionGraydon Hoare, a former C++ programmer on Mozilla Firefox and the original creator of Rust, acknowledges that for many people, Rust has become a viable alternative to C++ : https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html And on slide #4, he mentions that "C++ is well past expiration date" : https://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf It's possible that Graydon's earliest private versions of Rust the 4 years prior t…
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on “Open-source Zig book”Submitted “What next?” as a story · 461 points
HN discussionA sample size of one makes for a worse rule of thumb then a trend based on hard reality. Speed is all that matters, I actually learned that from Graydon's blog: http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/233585.html#cutid1 Rust sacrificed the majority of its runtime and adopted C's memory model late in development so people wouldn't have to pay a performance cost or depend on confusing heap allocation semantics. That's why it h…
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on “Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow”Submitted Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth as a story · 429 points
HN discussion> not rocket science Ha, this reminds me of that other thing that is not rocket science: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/1597.html Perhaps we need an "awesome" list of things that are not rocket science but strangely underused.
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on “Linear – A fast issue tracker”Submitted Things Rust shipped without as a story · 408 points
HN discussionRainer is indeed great and he also published an Udemy course on the topic. I've never tried it, by the time he released it I already was well-versed in Org-mode. He does a good job of showing some interesting features of Org-mode, yet he doesn't provide any insights of how cross-referencing things in a real workplace scenario may look like, how does Org-mode/Emacs help you to communicate with your colleagues. How it…
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on “Ditching Obsidian and building my own”Submitted Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification as a story · 357 points
HN discussion"The Idea" here I think is in the revelation of the ultimate preeminence of text in a programmer's life. Plain text deserves our utmost attention, yet many programmers overlook its significance and rarely give it deliberate thought. "Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else."¹ Vim-navigation provides a menta…
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on “Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste”Submitted Always bet on text as a story · 355 points
HN discussionYou're kind of inferring the inverse argument to what I pointed out. I believe in healthy discussion and along with the original creator of Rust I agree that there are plenty of things Rust didn't solve [1]. Nor do I believe that Rust is the perfect tool for all tasks. It's a good tool for a significant chunk of problems. That's where I stand. That said, equating people arguing in bad faith to any form of disagreeme…
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on “Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust”Submitted Swift – observations from Rust’s original designer as a story · 344 points
HN discussionJust to add (written just after 1.0): http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/214016.html I think the above post indicates that he is extremely proud of how Rust turned out.
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on ““What next?””Submitted A Note on Fil-C as a story · 241 points
HN discussionYou're unlikely to see Graydon agree with you about this. See "Always bet on text" ( http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html ).
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on ““What next?””Submitted The PERQ Computer as a story · 183 points
HN discussionPeople often speculate about this, which boggles me since graydon remarks positively on the current state of Rust all the time. http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/247406.html https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/886212237987368960 He even addresses the changes to the runtime: https://twitter.com/graydon_pub/status/705226109856526336
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on ““What next?””Submitted Always bet on text (2014) as a story · 156 points
HN discussionI'd read the other two latest posts on this blog for context: The Planning System: h https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/262512.html More Galbraith: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/262669.html
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on “Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to some growth”Submitted What's next for language design? (2017) as a story · 151 points
HN discussionIt's complicated. Graydon Hoare is the founder of the Rust project and led it through its early days, but left the project before its 1.0. The Rust that shipped shares the tenets of the Rust that Graydon created, but it is also different in some foundational ways. Graydon has written about this (and also why he left the Rust project) online. https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/c…
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on “Dada, an experimental new programming language”Submitted Retrobootstrapping Rust for some reason as a story · 142 points
HN discussionSee also Graydon Hoare's Rust-that-could-have-been: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
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on “Dada, an experimental new programming language”Submitted Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions as a story · 119 points
HN discussion> the kind of language Rust wanted to be That has changed through the years: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html
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on “Dada, an experimental new programming language”Submitted Graydon Hoare on Rust 1.0.0-alpha as a story · 89 points
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