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Mathieu De Coster

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Mathieu De Coster writes About, a personal blog at m-decoster.github.io about programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Fighting the Borrow Checker”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts on fighting the Rust borrow checker, with tips for avoiding that fight. HN readers link it in the 2017 Rust roadmap thread, where one commenter's self-deprecating reply points to it.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Fighting the Borrow Checker
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is embarrassing, but I'm now second-guessing whether what I wrote was accurate. Sorry. In penance, here are some links: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5ny09j/tips_to_not_fi... https://m-decoster.github.io//2017/01/16/fighting-borrowchk/

    Comment linking //2017/01/16/fighting-borrowchk/

    on “Rust's 2017 Roadmap”
  2. Submitted Fighting the Borrow Checker as a story · 104 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Compile time CUDA device checking in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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