Top all-time · #10605
Java is the new C
Personal blog · java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
Java is the new C is a personal blog at java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The Internet is running in debug mode (2014)”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the blog as related reading on Java performance, including a post about a persistent key-value store, in threads on Redis CRC performance and on Unix philosophy. They do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Java Garbage Collection Performance Tuning G1 CMS Optimization Benchmark
Most-linked posts?
- The Internet is running in debug mode (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-10-30
- A persistent key-value server in 40 lines and a sad fact (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-23
What Hacker News says?
I am not surprised about the Java performance. URL related: http://java-is-the-new-c.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-persistent-k...
Comment linking /2014/12/a-persistent-keyvalue-server-in-40.html
on “Improving Redis CRC performance”Submitted A persistent key-value server in 40 lines and a sad fact (2014) as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI noticed these criticisms of the Unix philosophy. Postel's law of accepting liberally and emitting conservatively is getting blamed for leading to bloated programs that need to parse bad input. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0... Text formats like JSON and XML are easy to write by hand now with better editors and Python scripts for parsing them are easy to write. Idiosyncratic file forma…
Comment linking /2014/10/why-protocols-are-messy-concept.html
on “The Art of Unix Programming (2003)”Submitted Comparison of different concurrency models: Actors, CSP, Disruptor and Threads as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet is running in debug mode (2014) as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't REST: Revisiting RPC performance and where Fowler might have been wrong as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking the Habit: Solving the Dining Philosopher's Problem with Actors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Live sample of powering a js polymer spa with java actors, break it :) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet is running in debug mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussion