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riki's house
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riki's house is a personal blog at riki.house about programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts about making video games in C++ without an engine, per the thread title. The one comment discusses C++ standard library header compile costs and language features, without judging the post.
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?
- A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-22
What Hacker News says?
I think the standard library is good, but if you pull in ANY of it's headers you add a couple hundred milliseconds to every translation unit. So when making games (and only then), I avoid the standard library. What I do like and use is overloading, references, templates, concepts, lambdas, enum classes, user defined literals, constexpr, operator overloading for math (!), little syntax stuff like structured binding d…
Comment linking /fmt
on “Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)”Submitted A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++ as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lua can be a cool HTML templating engine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A string formatting library in 65 lines of C++ as a story · 1 points
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