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Johan Engelen
Personal blog · johanengelen.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Johan Engelen's personal blog at johanengelen.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Fuzzing D code with LDC”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
An HN commenter quotes this post about fuzzing the LDC compiler's lexer and parser, citing it while disputing a claim that parser bugs are rare. The comment does not judge the writing itself.
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.
Articles by Johan Engelen
Most-linked posts?
- Fuzzing D code with LDC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-14
- Increasing the performance of D math code (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-12
What Hacker News says?
> They also tend to be the least buggy parts, I would handwave that maybe 1 in a thousand bugs were in the lexer/parser. Ehh, I don't know... https://johanengelen.github.io/ldc/2018/01/14/Fuzzing-with-L... From the article: > My expectation was that there would be a bug deep down with some rare cornercase of a cornercase, and that the fuzzer would have to run for hours and hours covering more and more of the lexer t…
Comment linking /ldc/2018/01/14/Fuzzing-with-LDC.html
on “A meta approach to implementing programming languages (2018)”Submitted Fuzzing D code with LDC as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Profile Guided Optimization: Optimizing D's virtual calls as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasing the performance of D math code (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasing the performance of D math code as a story · 1 points
HN discussion