Top all-time · #11953
Jakub Konka
Personal blog · jakubkonka.comprogrammingsystems
Jakub Konka's personal blog at jakubkonka.com covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jakub Konka's posts on Zig and Apple Silicon, mainly a write-up of how the M1 handles thread-local storage (LLVM TLS), and a post on Zig for iOS and Android.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jakub Konka's weblog about programming, game theory, maths, and more.
What Hacker News says?
>lack of __threadlocal support in M1 An informative post about this from the Zig folks: http://www.jakubkonka.com/2021/01/21/llvm-tls-apple-silicon....
Comment linking /2021/01/21/llvm-tls-apple-silicon.html
on “Initial M1 support merged into Linux SoC tree”Submitted Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig as a story · 237 points
HN discussionThat has come up already. The M1 does thread local storage in a different way than other aarch64 CPUs. http://www.jakubkonka.com/2021/01/21/llvm-tls-apple-silicon....
Comment linking /2021/01/21/llvm-tls-apple-silicon.html
on “Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon)”Submitted Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig – part 2: entitlements as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLanguage-level guarantees of memory safety are not critical to all low-level programmers, and sometimes this is fine! Developers of games, compilers, digital audio workstations, video editors, and live performance software (such as openFrameworks) likely don't rank memory safety as their top concern. Zig is already an attractive choice for those domains because it offers: - Great compile times compared to C++/Rust,…
Comment linking /2022/03/16/hcs-zig.html
on “Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig”Submitted Stubbing out WASI manually in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere's no good reason why not. Zig is, after all, a full C compiler so it can certainly create C libraries. You can create a full Zig program to run on Android: https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_android/ iOS: https://www.jakubkonka.com/2022/04/30/ios-dx-with-zig-milan-...
Comment linking /2022/04/30/ios-dx-with-zig-milan-meetup.html
on “Zap – Blazingly fast backends in Zig”