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Dimforge Blog
Company blog · dimforge.com/blogprogrammingsystems
Dimforge Blog is the company blog at dimforge.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The year 2021 in Dimforge and our objectives for 2022”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Dimforge's Rust physics libraries and game-development physics choices, but none of the comments judge the blog's writing. The two comments only reference the libraries or quote a discussion about them.
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Most-linked posts?
- The year 2021 in Dimforge and our objectives for 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-02
- The Rapier Physics Engine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-25
What Hacker News says?
Plugging my system here: https://github.com/timschmidt/csgrs I think I've reached feature parity with OpenSCAD, and a similar level of ease of use, but with multithreading and all of Rust available, including the https://www.dimforge.com/ libraries and high quality 2D offsetting with https://github.com/jbuckmccready/cavalier_contours
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on “Show HN: OpenSCAD configurable calendar 3D model”Submitted The Rapier Physics Engine as a story · 164 points
HN discussion> No one is displacing that tomorrow, or next month, or even, I don't know, I'll be bold and guess 5 years from now. Betting on the status quo is definitely a pretty safe bet--and particularly over the timeframes of AA-AAA game development. And particularly for someone who is wanting to pick up a job in the industry tomorrow . > for nearly 20 years, the physics library choices game developers have had has been a sma…
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on “Rust – Are We Game Yet?”Submitted Advanced soft-bodies for games with the Rapier physics engine as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nphysics won't be maintained and Rapier is born: new physics engine for rust as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dimforge – Open-Source Rust crates for numerical simulation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The year 2021 in Dimforge and our objectives for 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The year 2021 in Dimforge and our objectives for 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating const-generics to nalgebra 0.26 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Month in Dimforge #5 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rapier physics engine, written in Rust as a story · 1 points
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