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Pavel Rojtberg
Personal blog · rojtberg.netprogramming
Pavel Rojtberg's personal blog at rojtberg.net covers programming. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on build systems (including a 'do not use meson' post) and on Ubuntu's Unity desktop decisions. HN commenters cite them in threads on build tools and Ubuntu, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /1481/do-not-use-meson/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-01
What Hacker News says?
> Relevant: http://www.rojtberg.net/1481/do-not-use-meson/ Meson is fantastic.
Comment linking /1481/do-not-use-meson/
on “Please – A Cross-Language Build System”Submitted How to generate random points on a sphere as a story · 4 points
HN discussionApologies in advance for shitting on this, but PLEASE STOP BUILDING BUILD SYSTEMS. We already have a serious incompatibility problem with projects using autotools vs CMake vs Meson vs gyp vs Boost.Build vs SCons vs BUCK vs... and now we throw Please onto the pile. It sucks when you find a smallish library and discover it uses an esoteric build system whose dependencies dwarf the library themselves (cough Yoga). The…
Comment linking /1481/do-not-use-meson/
on “Please – A Cross-Language Build System”Submitted Do Not Use Meson as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> While Canonical is happy to accept thousands of hours of free work in bug fixes and quality assurance of their code, they are not interested in letting the community have a meaningful say in its conception. Which solves the problem of design by committee and results in a great desktop experience. I love how Unity is preserving space on my 13.3" screen and how Ubuntu team made all the choices for me and then made i…
Comment linking /457/gnome-project-suffering-the-nih-disease/
on “Ubuntu: you’re doing it wrong”