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Dominik Honnef
Personal blog · honnef.coprogrammingwriting
Dominik Honnef's personal blog at honnef.co covers programming and writing. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “What's happening in Go tip”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in a thread on callbacks and async/await. It contrasts Go's goroutine scheduling with cooperative await-style multitasking and does not judge the linked writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- What's happening in Go tip2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-16
What Hacker News says?
The difference is that Go has what looks like preemptive scheduling for goroutines (and will eventually be truly preemptive; see [1]) while await is more like cooperative multitasking. If you're writing in Go, you should use channels (or mutexes) to avoid race conditions: "share by communicating". With a single-threaded language using await, it's safer to modify common data structures without locks, although you sho…
Comment linking /posts/2013/08/what_s_happening_in_go_tip__2013_08_15_/
on “Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement”Submitted What's happening in Go tip as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My org-roam workflows for taking notes and writing articles – Dominik Honnef as a story · 2 points
HN discussion