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rix0r.nl is a personal blog at rix0r.nl about programming and systems. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its CMake guide, which one commenter says has good material for learning modern CMake, alongside two linked presentations on the same topic.

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?

  1. The Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. elteto · 2017-05-04Recommends
    As a new cmake user these two presentations have been essential in getting started with "modern cmake": [0] http://thetoeb.de/2016/08/30/modern-cmake-presentation/ [1] https://www.slideshare.net/DanielPfeifer1/cmake-48475415 And this blog post also has some good stuff: [2] https://rix0r.nl/blog/2015/08/13/cmake-guide/

    Comment linking /blog/2015/08/13/cmake-guide/

    on “Build2 – A C++ Build Toolchain and Package Manager”
  2. Submitted The downside of being a generalist as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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