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Man Asheria
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Man Asheria's personal blog at herman.asia covers programming and writing. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why is Golang popular in China?”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post, "Why is Go popular in China," when discussing Go's popularity there and whether it is due to Chinese language or regional factors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Why is Golang popular in China?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-04-18
- Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-28
- Excellent Open Source Go Projects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-26
- Diary of Building an iOS App with React Native2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-03
What Hacker News says?
You might want to re-evaluate that line of thinking: Here's a post from 2014 that made it to HN http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872400
Comment linking /why-is-go-popular-in-china
on “Go 2, here we come”Submitted Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books as a story · 251 points
HN discussionHN didn't like your link touching the parens: http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china
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on “Why I love Rust”Submitted Why is Golang popular in China? as a story · 159 points
HN discussionFrom a career perspective, Go is currently the language you'd want to learn. Here's my list of some of the largest companies from a few months ago, excluding a bunch of Chinese ones I haven't heard of (of which there are many, considering that China is most likely Go's largest adopter ( http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china) ). Walmart, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Intel, Google, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, DigitalOc…
Comment linking /why-is-go-popular-in-china)
on “Why I love Rust”Submitted Excellent Open Source Go Projects as a story · 13 points
HN discussionWhile I do like English, the way you said 'your particular language' seemed a little off to me. I'm no expert but that sample you gave me looks like Simplified Chinese, which should be readable by about 1.2 billion people[0]. There is no solid data on how widespread English is yet but I think if 1/6th of the earth speaks a language which is also an official language of the United Nations, programmers should be able…
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on “A Web IDE for Teams using Golang”Submitted Why is Golang popular in China? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI wanted to ask why Go is so popular in China, but then I found this: http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china On reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/23c7y0/why_is_golang...
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on “A Web IDE for Teams using Golang”Submitted Running the Go Race Detector with -cover as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSeems that it's not because of a Chinese regional word. http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china
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on “Google Trends: Golang is popular in China”Submitted How I choose nonfiction books as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diary of Building an iOS App with React Native as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient Bit Manipulation in Go 1.9 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Excellent Open Source Go Projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diary of Building an iOS App with React Native as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Solving Regex Crosswords Using Go as a story · 1 points
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