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Chris Pietschmann
Personal blog · pietschsoft.com/postprogrammingweb
Chris Pietschmann's personal blog at pietschsoft.com covers programming and web. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Chris Pietschmann's blog for programming language comparisons, such as a 2014 post comparing C# with other languages, and for a Swift versus Scala-style syntax comparison.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-10
What Hacker News says?
They almost certainly do adjust CPU frequency as well (although I don't have a 2020 Mac to check this). Lowering the frequency would mean fewer instructions can be processed per second which means you are more likely to see a higher CPU usage for all tasks. What you see is probably the combination of both of these effects. It's annoying that the process monitor does not provide any way to distinguish high CPU load d…
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on “Try charging on the right and not on the left”Submitted Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere is a Swift vs Scala syntax comparison: https://leverich.github.io/swiftislikescala/ And also, a comparison to C#: http://pietschsoft.com/post/2014/06/07/Basic-Comparison-of-C...
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on “Why Rubyist Will Love Swift”Submitted Basic Comparison of C# and Apple Swift Programming Language Syntax as a story · 2 points
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