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Leonard Schütz
Personal blog · leonardschuetz.ch/blogprogrammingsystems
Leonard Schütz's personal blog at leonardschuetz.ch covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Dynamic Typing and NaN Boxing (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Leonard Schütz's blog post on NaN boxing, a technique for representing values in language interpreters. It is cited as a further reference alongside other NaN-boxing resources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Leonard Schütz personal website
Most-linked posts?
- Dynamic Typing and NaN Boxing (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-16
What Hacker News says?
Personal choice, is what I'd say. You can get a lot of mileage out of implementing a dynamic language with NaN boxing[1]. It really depends on the kind of language you're trying to build an interpreter for, and what purpose it could serve. For dynamic languages, I'd say looking at the core types of Erlang is a great place to start (Integers, Symbols, Functions, etc.). For a statically typed language things get more…
Comment linking /blog/nan-boxing/
on “Crafting Interpreters”Submitted Dynamic Typing and NaN Boxing (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSome other things on the same topic: https://leonardschuetz.ch/blog/nan-boxing/ https://anniecherkaev.com/the-secret-life-of-nan Is NaN-boxing actually used in the major browser JS engines?
Comment linking /blog/nan-boxing/
on “NaN Boxing (2020)”Submitted Dynamic Typing and Nan Boxing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOk, what about: https://leonardschuetz.ch/blog/nan-boxing/
Comment linking /blog/nan-boxing/
on “Never trust a programmer who says they know C++”