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Olivier Faure
Personal blog · poignardazur.github.ioprogrammingsystems
Olivier Faure writes PoignardAzur, a personal blog at poignardazur.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2021, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Variadic Generics ideas that won't work for Rust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Nix, the package manager, and its design trade-offs. The only comment quotes the author's argument about Nix's powerful primitives and pushes back on 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.
Olivier’s dev blog.
Most-linked posts?
- Variadic Generics ideas that won't work for Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-09
- When to not use Rust – post-mortem on my wiki converter project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-05
- About political messages on the Rust blog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-05
- Variadic Generics, Again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-09
What Hacker News says?
> I think what you're missing is that instead of providing the convenience behavior you're looking for, a more powerful primitive is available. That's great, but I still want the convenience behavior. > Give it a chance. I tried. I kept getting papercuts, and things that were easy on PopOS were annoying on NixOS. That wouldn't deter me if I needed to use Nix, but as it is PopOS works perfectly for me and I have no r…
Comment linking /2021/09/08/nixos-post-mortem/
on “Nix: An idea whose time has come”Submitted About political messages on the Rust blog as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trying NixOS on the Desktop as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variadic Generics ideas that won't work for Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variadic Generics ideas that won't work for Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expanding on Withoutboat's Pinned Places as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to not use Rust – post-mortem on my wiki converter project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variadic Generics ideas that won't work for Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When to not use Rust – post-mortem on wiki converter project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rambling about Microsoft, and testing alternatives to GitHub Copilot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Report on platform-compliance for cargo directories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Masonry 0.1 (Rust GUI framework) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variadic Generics, Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variadic Generics, Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Status of the Druid ecosystem in December 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About political messages on the Rust blog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing Unsized Variables in Rust as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust 2030 Christmas list: Inout methods as a story · 1 points
HN discussion