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idursun.com: Scratch Pad is a personal blog at idursun.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

Linked by one commenter in a thread on C and Rust, as support for the claim that Rust's abstraction costs fall mainly at compile time. The linked posts cover Rust's zero-cost abstractions.

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?

  1. Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-07
  2. Apache Kafka Bits and Pieces
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. The cost of Rust's abstractions are largely at compile time, not at runtime. For example, see https://idursun.com/posts/rust_zero_cost_abstractions_in_act... or https://carette.xyz/posts/zero_cost_abstraction/ .

    Comment linking /posts/rust_zero_cost_abstractions_in_action/

    on “C Is the Greenest Programming Language”
  2. Submitted Zero to Kubernetes on Azure as a story · 155 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Rust: Zero-Cost Abstraction in Action as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Bare metal hello world in morse code with Rust as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Apache Kafka Bits and Pieces as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Kafka Bits and Pieces as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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