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Naming is hard
Personal blog · blog.dureuill.net/articlesprogrammingsystems
Naming is hard is a personal blog at blog.dureuill.net about programming and systems. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A curiously recurring lifetime issue”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links this blog, in a thread on the Mojo language for bioinformatics. It discusses garbage collection versus ownership models and 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.
Most-linked posts?
- A curiously recurring lifetime issue3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-15
- Too dangerous for C++2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-09
- Mixing rayon and Tokio for fun and (hair) loss2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-14
What Hacker News says?
Too bad Julia doesn't have this theoretical "well written GC". I do not like GCs, so I agree with OP's sentiment. Why solve such a hard problem when you don't have to? I don't find ownership models that difficult. It's things one should be thinking of anyway. I think this provides a good example of where stricter checking/an ownership model like Rust has makes it easier than languages that do not have it (in this ca…
Comment linking /articles/too-dangerous-cpp/
on “A look at the Mojo language for bioinformatics”Submitted Too dangerous for C++ as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mixing rayon and Tokio for fun and (hair) loss as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rustaceans, say goodbye to lifetime errors: announcing nolife 0.3 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted So, you want to write an unsafe crate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mixing rayon and Tokio for fun and (hair) loss as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A curiously recurring lifetime issue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A curiously recurring lifetime issue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A curiously recurring lifetime issue as a story · 1 points
HN discussion