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Richard Feldman
Personal blog · rtfeldman.comprogramming
Richard Feldman's personal blog at rtfeldman.com covers programming. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How close can pure functional programming get to C?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post about a Rust-to-Zig rewrite and discuss whether the language suits the project. The comment only reacts to the post's content and does not judge the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- How close can pure functional programming get to C?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-23
- 0.1 plus 0.22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-28
What Hacker News says?
While I'm a rust enthusiast, I do agree that certain languages lend themselves well to particular domains. So a rewrite from Rust to something better suited is fine by me. In fact, while I do work on a rust project, I would not have and still would not recommend it as the choice for that particular project. That being said, I had to do some double takes while reading this. > https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig#memory-…
Comment linking /rust-to-zig
on “How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going”Submitted How close can pure functional programming get to C? as a story · 282 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional semantics in imperative clothing as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nonsense Accusations of Spaghetti Code Considered Harmful as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted 0.1 plus 0.2 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How close can pure FP get to C? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 0.1 plus 0.2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Requesting Whiteboard Coding is Doing it Wrong as a story · 1 points
HN discussion