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James Turner
Personal blog · turnerj.com/blogprogrammingsystems
James Turner writes Turnerj, a personal blog at turnerj.com about programming and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on the pain points of C# source generators. One commenter cites its Schema.NET example, where the generator makes an HTTP request during compilation, to support their own point.
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.
A programmer and entrepreneur with a love of cars, music and technology.
What Hacker News says?
Ah, okay I thought that source generators had more limitations compared to F#. Turns out they can make arbitrary calls, including across a network, which previously I thought was only in the domain of type providers: > For Schema.NET, we do a HTTP request to get the JSON we need to build https://turnerj.com/blog/the-pain-points-of-csharp-source-ge... Also phillipcarter says yes so I'll happily take his view over min…
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