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Hamid Mosalla
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Hamid Mosalla's personal blog at hamidmosalla.com covers programming and web. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on async Rust. The one comment discusses C# async synchronization contexts and ConfigureAwait, and says a blog on that subject is hard to fully grasp. It does not clearly judge this post.
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What Hacker News says?
IIRC C# has management under the hood with different SynchronizationContext [0] to manage this, and it can lead to bad habits like sprinkling "ConfigureAwait(false)" all over code. It's also devilishly hard to understand, I've read a blog [1] on the subject several times and don't always fully grasp the consequences of different options. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threadin... [1] https:/…
Comment linking /2018/06/24/what-is-synchronizationcontext/
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