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Márk Sági-Kazár
Personal blog · sagikazarmark.hu/blogprogrammingcareer
Márk Sági-Kazár's personal blog at sagikazarmark.hu covers programming and career. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Vanity Import Paths in Go”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters discuss Go module import paths and moving Go repos, linking the author's posts on a new Go API for Protocol Buffers and on thanking maintainers. The comments do not judge 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.
Most-linked posts?
- Vanity Import Paths in Go3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-24
What Hacker News says?
I think you’re overestimating how much people pay attention to the body part of the import paths. Since there have been a quite few projects that implemented a sort of redirect (i.e. ‘vanity’ imports [0]) most people’s eyes just glaze over the small change in the URL. I would strongly suggest using /v2 at the end. /v1 not existing on *.golang.org is not a problem in practice, but if it ends up one you could just set…
Comment linking /blog/vanity-import-paths-in-go/
on “A new Go API for Protocol Buffers”Submitted How to become an Open Source Software contributor? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHmmm... I never finished updating my Github Sponsor thing, so I've just done that. But as someone that tended to create orgs for projects rather than have it all under a personal account, should I move all of the projects? I guess so, right? What's the recommended way to move Go repos without breaking them for all users? (I have low-thousands of stars, but the largest project is used by mid-thousands of projects - s…
Comment linking /blog/vanity-import-paths-in-go/
on “Thank you to our maintainers”Submitted Vanity Import Paths in Go as a story · 1 points
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