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Ductile Systems

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Ductile Systems is a personal blog at ductile.systems about programming and systems. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Better Git Conflicts with Zdiff3”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for a post titled 'When Zig Outshines Rust', about memory-efficient enum arrays. The one comment discusses Rust's type system as a parallel functional language, not the post 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.

A personal website with a focus on programming and building reliable systems, both in code and for oneself

Most-linked posts?

  1. Better Git Conflicts with Zdiff3
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Agreed. The strong agree is that Rust's type system---and many other languages' type systems---is a parallel language to its runtime language. Parameterized types are like functions; instantiating a type parameter is like a function call; `impl ... where` does pattern matching. You get a pure functional language based on pattern matching and implemented with memoization. These type systems are often Turing complete…

    Comment linking /oxidizing-the-technical-interview/

    on “When Zig Outshines Rust – Memory Efficient Enum Arrays”
  2. Submitted Better Git Conflicts with Zdiff3 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Better Git Conflicts with Zdiff3 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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