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Stefans Welt

Personal blog · blog.behnel.deprogrammingsystems

Stefans Welt is a personal blog at blog.behnel.de about programming and systems. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2018

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a detailed technical critique of Nuitka, a Python compiler, written by Stefan Behnel, one of the Cython leads, after a EuroPython talk on the project.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Stefan Behnel (one of the Cython leads) posted a more detailed critique of the project after the EuroPython talk too: http://blog.behnel.de/posts/indexp241.html Nuitka's author's reply here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fB1tgJ... I sympathise with the developer because I think the tone of the criticism he's been getting is very far short of nice. ...But...On a purely technical level...I see…

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    on “Nuitka: a Python compiler”
  2. Submitted Cython is 20 as a story · 210 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21 as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted XML parser performance in CPython 3.3 and PyPy 1.7 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted What's new in Cython 0.29? as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted What CPython could use Cython for as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What's new in Cython 0.27? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Cython, pybind11, cffi – which tool should you choose as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Should you ship the Cython generated C code or not? – Stefans Welt as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Cython for web frameworks as a story · 1 points

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