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Izzy Muerte
Personal blog · izzys.casaprogramming
Izzy Muerte's personal blog at izzys.casa covers programming. Since 2017, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “On "Safe" C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this long, opinionated, swear-filled blog for its C++ and Rust writing, especially the 2024 'On Safe C++' post, which is cited in threads about the C++ standards controversy.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My Personal Web Zone
Most-linked posts?
- On "Safe" C++12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2024-11-18
- 500 Python Interpreters3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-08-19
- Killing the C++ Modules Technical Specification3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-10
- Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-03
- Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake (Redux)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-25
What Hacker News says?
https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/ is a long and opinionated drama and swear-filled read on the topic. snips from it: > "many people reading this might be familiar with the addition of the very powerful #embed preprocessor directive that was added to C. This is literally years of work brought about by one person, and that is JeanHeyd Meneide. JeanHeyd is a good friend and also the current editor of the C standa…
Comment linking /2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
on “Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us"”Submitted 500 Python Interpreters as a story · 173 points
HN discussionWhat if, bagxrv, is a Rust fan, just playing ya? Everyone knows Rust fans are the most vigorous developers on the internet. Just take a look at https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
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on “The two factions of C++”Submitted Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++ as a story · 148 points
HN discussionreminder that the author is a convicted rapist. for more details skip to the relevant section of the following article: https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
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on “Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?”Submitted Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake as a story · 138 points
HN discussionC++23 is a godawful mess; especially the functional paradigms (which look beautiful in e.g. OCaml) that got shoehorned kicking and screaming into the morass that C++ had already been. If you read function specs in the OCaml docs, they're understandable and the syntax is clean; the same concepts bolted onto C++ look like line noise, both in actual syntax and the (allegedy) English-language description on en.cpprefere…
Comment linking /2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
on “Rust in QEMU Roadmap”Submitted Killing the C++ Modules Technical Specification as a story · 128 points
HN discussioneh, check that modules is what you think it is/should be: https://izzys.casa/posts/millennials-are-killing-the-modules... Modules without buy-in from build tools (or a fresh build tool) will probably be DoA as Isabella says.
Comment linking /posts/millennials-are-killing-the-modules-ts.html
on “C++17 Is Here: Interview with Herb Sutter”Submitted On "Safe" C++ as a story · 45 points
HN discussionWhy would he not post about his own banishment over such BS? When people feign offense to get their colleagues banned over such innocent words as "question" in the title of a paper, why should anyone bend over and accept such authoritarian influence? Someone has to push back on the tyranny of the crybully. >It honestly makes me sad to watch a guy who went to Stanford and worked at Apple and Google get involved with…
Comment linking /2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
on “C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'”Submitted Outcomes, Mistakes, and the Nuance of Error Handling as a story · 30 points
HN discussionYou should know better than to take the word of an anonymous comment and call it fact. Andrew T. (the guy in question) gave this statement on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1gynl1v/c_stan... The rumors surrounding him appear to have originated from https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/ What we know is that he was asked to change the title after people complained, and he pushed back on that,…
Comment linking /2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
on “C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'”Submitted "Safe" C++: Hell in a Refcell as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThis appears to be the source of the backlash: https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
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on “C++ Standards Contributor Expelled for 'The Undefined Behavior Question'”Submitted "Safe" C++ as a story · 20 points
HN discussionOkay so I hate to be that person but I'd really caution against sharing Arthur O'Dwyer's work given that they've been essentially ex-communicated from the C++ community. https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/cppcon.html https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__trans... https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
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on “Things C++26 define_static_array can't do”Submitted On "Safe" C++ as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted 500 Python Interpreters as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Millennials Are Killing the [C++] Modules TS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Had to Redesign This Site Again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 500 Python Interpreters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "500" Python Interpreters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake (Redux) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake (Redux) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake as a story · 2 points
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