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Silicon Island
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Silicon Island is a personal blog at siliconislandblog.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Gnome and Rust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A 2016 post on the future of the Vala programming language amid GNOME and elementary OS interest in Rust. Commenters cite it as background on the shift away from Vala.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My ramdon thoughts about Free Software, GNOME, and life in general.
Most-linked posts?
- Gnome and Rust5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-10-31
What Hacker News says?
They need to watch out because apparently the Gnome foundation wants to ditch Vala for Rust to cut cost and "attract more developers" : https://siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thoughts-... > and support a preferred programming language (Vala) https://launchpad.net/elementary
Comment linking /2016/10/31/thoughts-on-dx-gnome-and-rust/
on “Switching from macOS: The Basics”Submitted Gnome and Rust as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI read somewhere that some Gnome (and elementaryOS) people are looking for replacing Vala code with Rust. I can't find the exact place, but this is going on since 2016 at least https://blogs.gnome.org/despinosa/2016/11/01/rust-and-vala/ > Rust is on the horizon and have voices to use it instead Vala And https://siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thoughts-... Also mentioned here https://elementaryos.stackexch…
Comment linking /2016/10/31/thoughts-on-dx-gnome-and-rust/
on “Vala Programming Language”Submitted Thoughts on DX: Gnome and Rust as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAlberto discussed Vala here: https://siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/thoughts-... > Vala has been a great tool for prototyping, I love it myself, but debugging it is a nightmare, it’s filled with security issues and even if we fixed those really difficult problems, we’d be maintaining our own language on top of everything else. I would like to see us maintaining less stuff other than a desktop and the app…
Comment linking /2016/10/31/thoughts-on-dx-gnome-and-rust/
on “Librsvg now requires Rust”Submitted GNOME + Rust : Please let this happen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fleet Commander, the central configuration management, is production ready as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Rust+GObject coding session as a story · 1 points
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