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owensd.io
Personal blog · owensd.ioprogramming
owensd.io is a personal blog at owensd.io about programming. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Performance Matters: O(N)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link owensd.io for long-form writing on Swift and the language, including a 2014 post on Swift experiences and a series of posts on the author's Swift dilemma.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Check the archives for a listing of all previous blog entries.
Most-linked posts?
- Performance Matters: O(N)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-06
- My Swift Dilemma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-25
What Hacker News says?
I can't help but feel like we continue to just go backwards; Swift doesn't look like they spent much time really thinking about what they wanted to solve and how to solve it. I thought this was an interesting read: http://owensd.io/2014/09/24/swift-experiences.html I know saying this is a bit terse, but a native Clojure compiler for iOS would have been the best thing Apple could have done -- let someone else with fa…
Comment linking /2014/09/24/swift-experiences.html
on “Swift Resistance”Submitted Swift Resistance as a story · 134 points
HN discussion"How does that analogy make any sense?" Well, I told you that the blog forms a narrative, of which the entry forms a part. His reasons for reaching the conclusions in this entry is based on earlier investigations, which are detailed in previous blog entries. The accusation that this entry is lacking context is similar to claiming the same from reading the end of a book, in that of course it won't make any sense unle…
Comment linking /2014/06/09/swift-future-for-app-developers.html
on “My Swift Dilemma”Submitted My Swift Dilemma as a story · 82 points
HN discussionRegarding "blub" I already told you that this is unlikely given the amount of dialog and work Owens has done in the language so far. He is one of the few people who has written in depth about the language (not tutorials) If you didn't like my attempt to make sense of your non-sequitor about programming languages, you should perhaps reconsider your approach to commenting / writing. In any case, his post is to be unde…
Comment linking /2014/06/09/swift-future-for-app-developers.html
on “My Swift Dilemma”Submitted Swift Resistance Explored as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSince you already know C and are comfortable with it, start with Objective C. The hard part of app development is Cocoa and the other Apple frameworks (because they are huge), not the language. Because Swift is so new, most of the documentation and open source code are in Objective-C. Additionally Cocoa was designed with Obj-C in mind. There are current learning pains with Swift on trying to understand how to best b…
Comment linking /2015/02/01/the-optimization-game.html
on “New to App Development – Objective C or Swift”Submitted Where to Go from Here as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift v1.2 Performance as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a better Objective-C as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted ClojureScript and Electron as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language Design: Building a Modern C, Round 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift: The Optimization Game as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Matters: O(N) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Matters: O(N) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dependent Types: I'm Missing Something as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swift and Visual Studio Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to “Monads” (and Functional Programming) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional JSON in Swift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit Testing Doesn’t Need to Be Involved as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Matters: O(N) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swiccup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SE-0117 – The Swift Proposal of Doom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Efficient Mutation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Language Design: Declarations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Goto Fail and Swift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking a Look at Practical FRP as a story · 1 points
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