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Nick Cameron
Personal blog · featherweightmusings.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
Nick Cameron writes Featherweight Musings, a personal blog at featherweightmusings.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Posts by a Rust developer on the language's post-1.0 priorities and on Rust for C++ programmers. HN commenters cite them as sources or pointers, without judging 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.
I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron
What Hacker News says?
This is not an official list, but it's one developer's opinion on post-1.0 priorities: http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-thoughts... It also links to the list of RFCs that have been postponed until post-1.0: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...
Comment linking /2014/12/my-thoughts-on-rust-in-2015.html
on “Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline”Submitted Rust for C++ programmers – part 2: control flow as a story · 125 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Rust-for-CXX-programm... There's also http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/04/rust-for-c-... which is longer, but not as useful. Rust has roughly the feature set and memory model of C++. The difference is that in Rust, the safety issues C++ sweeps under the rug are addressed. As I point out occasionally, the three big problems in C/C++ are "who owns it", "how big it it…
Comment linking /2014/04/rust-for-c-programmers-part-1-hello.html
on “Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language”Submitted Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ programmers – Part 8: destructuring as a story · 108 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ Programmers Part 7: Data Types as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ Programmers – Part 9 as a story · 85 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ programmers – part 3: primitive types and operators as a story · 81 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ programmers – part 9: destructuring pt2 – match and borrowing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Win Benchmarks And Influence People as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rustfmt – call for contributions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ programmers: Why Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on numeric types as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Subtyping and coercion in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git workflow of ncameron as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LibHoare – pre- and postconditions in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust for C++ programmers – part 5: borrowed references as a story · 1 points
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