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Joe Wilm
Personal blog · jwilm.io/blogprogrammingsystems
Joe Wilm's personal blog at jwilm.io covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks”. The last post was in 2018, 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 this blog, written by the Alacritty terminal emulator's developer, for posts on Alacritty's announcement, its scrollback feature and benchmarks. Commenters cite these posts as sources.
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.
Joe Wilm's blog about software engineering with a focus on The Rust Programming Language
Most-linked posts?
- Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-17
- /blog/announcing-alacritty/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-27
What Hacker News says?
He did a bit more than that[0], and he comapred it to Kitty. [0] https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/
Comment linking /blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/
on “Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text”Submitted Alacritty gets scrollback, publishes benchmarks as a story · 62 points
HN discussionOfc there was a tagline. Check the announcement post in the repo's readme, it's your typical "blazing fast Rust" > Alacritty is a blazing fast, GPU accelerated terminal emulator. It’s written in Rust and uses OpenGL https://jwilm.io/blog/announcing-alacritty/
Comment linking /blog/announcing-alacritty/
on “Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator”Submitted From Andstr to Cow in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere was a blog post with some benchmarks in 2018: https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/ But not sure if this is still applicable.
Comment linking /blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/
on “Alacritty v0.5”Idk man, this is a successful project that's half a decade old[1], has over 40k stars, is wildly popular in eg. the UnixPorn and TWM communities, and is packaged by most other distros; I don't really see any cause for concern ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [1]: Dated via the dev's release blog post: https://jwilm.io/blog/announcing-alacritty/
Comment linking /blog/announcing-alacritty/
on “What's a good Linux terminal emulator that doesn't try to reinvent TMUX?”