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Plingdollar
Personal blog · willspeak.meprogramming
Plingdollar is a personal blog at willspeak.me about programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Red Green Syntax Trees (2021)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on red-green syntax trees, the compiler design used by Roslyn, Swift's libsyntax and Rust's Rowan. Comments cite it as a reference and do not judge its quality.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Red Green Syntax Trees (2021)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-11
What Hacker News says?
>Easier said then done of course as tools are often an afterthought for compiler builders. Except for Microsoft's Roslyn (.NET compiler) https://willspeak.me/2021/11/24/red-green-syntax-trees-an-ov... https://ericlippert.com/2012/06/08/red-green-trees/ Ive used Roslyn SDKs to build tools and it is really good
Comment linking /2021/11/24/red-green-syntax-trees-an-overview.html
on “Code search is hard”Submitted Red Green Syntax Trees (2021) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://willspeak.me/2021/11/24/red-green-syntax-trees-an-ov... >The idea of red / green syntax trees initially came from the Roslyn C# compiler. It was adopted by Swift in their libsyntax implementation. The Rust Analyzer project built further upon this with the Rowan crate. Rowan extends the model of red-green syntax trees with the idea of dynamically typed nodes. Also probably this: https://joeduffyblog.com/2015/…
Comment linking /2021/11/24/red-green-syntax-trees-an-overview.html
on “Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?”Submitted An approach to captures and variable resolution in F# as a story · 1 points
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