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Joel's Journal
Personal blog · joelmccracken.github.io/entriesprogramming
Joel's Journal is a personal blog at joelmccracken.github.io about programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Joel's Journal posts about learning Rust, such as building a simple web app in Rust, when discussing how hard Rust is. The comments cite these posts without judging 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.
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What Hacker News says?
I believe Rust is hard, and I certainly did not ignore the Rust book. I haven't really read it in about a year though, since abandoning this project http://joelmccracken.github.io/entries/a-simple-web-app-in-r...
Comment linking /entries/a-simple-web-app-in-rust-pt-4-cli-option-parsing/
on “Rust vs. Go”Submitted A Simple Web App in Rust as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThanks for explaining what you think the author meant; i meant to reiterate that I was trying to actually understand as opposed to argue, but I forgot; I think sometimes "hey I don't get what you're saying because of reasons XYZ..." comes across as "I think you're wrong". Composing monads is another one of those painful parts of haskell. I remember being so frustrated while learning Haskell that there was all of thi…
Comment linking /entries/a-simple-web-app-in-rust-pt-4-cli-option-parsing/
on “A Rust shaped hole”Submitted Rust, the Language for Growth as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with the Rust shift in perspective as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Print a Struct in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Use Bash as a story · 1 points
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