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Sophia Turner
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Sophia Turner's personal blog at sophiajt.com covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Following New Paths Ahead”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Following New Paths Ahead4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
- The search for easier safe systems programming3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-08
- The Case for Nushell (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
What Hacker News says?
And now June is dead too. https://www.sophiajt.com/following-new-paths-ahead/
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on “I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL”Submitted YouTube addiction, one month sober as a story · 227 points
HN discussionGiven that the main author is looking into another language, maybe not much left anyway. https://www.sophiajt.com/search-for-easier-safe-systems-prog...
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on “I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL”Submitted The search for easier safe systems programming as a story · 194 points
HN discussionI agree, but in my experience arena allocation in Rust leaves something to be desired. I wrote something about this here: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/12/19/arenas-and-rust.html I was previously excited about this project which proposed to support arena allocation in the language in a more fundamental way: https://www.sophiajt.com/search-for-easier-safe-systems-prog... That effort was focused primarily on learn…
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on “Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier”Submitted The Case for Nushell (2023) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI thought Sophia officially closed down working on both Nushell and Jakt, but it appears I mis-remembered: it was Nushell and another language named June. https://www.sophiajt.com/following-new-paths-ahead/
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on “The Jakt Programming Language”Submitted Following New Paths Ahead as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I'm confident that June (or some derivative language) will find its way to the gamedev world in the near future The repo has been archived and now is unmaintained: https://www.sophiajt.com/following-new-paths-ahead/
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on “Rust Is for the Engine, Not the Game”Yeah... https://www.sophiajt.com/case-for-nushell/ makes a really good case for Nushell as an alternative to Bash. Unfortunately, I don't think Nushell brings much benefit for folks who already know Bash enough to change directories and launch executables and who already know Python enough to use more complicated data structures/control flow/IDE features I'm still rooting for Nushell as I think its a really cool ide…
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on “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead (2016)”
