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Code Ballads
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Code Ballads is a personal blog at code-ballads.net about programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in one HN thread as a source on C/C++ REPLs, alongside the cling interpreter, and the post on a read-eval-print loop in C. The comment does not judge the writing itself.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Oh, there's apparently a repl for clang/c++: "cling" http://code-ballads.net/read-eval-print-loop-repl-in-c/ https://code-ballads.net/generated-notebooks/cpp/repl_cling/... https://github.com/root-project/cling https://blog.jupyter.org/interactive-workflows-for-c-with-ju... There's been some discussion on hn before, but I couldn't find anything particularly recent (or interesting tbh). Then there is of course rr, as…
Comment linking /generated-notebooks/cpp/repl_cling/markdown/
on “I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time”Submitted REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) in C++: hands-on session as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear ImGui Bundle as a story · 1 points
HN discussion