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Stephen Coakley
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Stephen Coakley's personal blog at stephencoakley.com covers programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Rust Solved Dependency Hell”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on semantic versioning and dependency breakage. The only comment says the problem is already solved within Rust and Cargo, and does not judge the writing itself.
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.
I'm a software developer based in Wisconsin
Most-linked posts?
- Rust Solved Dependency Hell2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-12
What Hacker News says?
This really is a solved problem within Rust & Cargo. That's why Cargo is such a critical part of Rust & why it really gains traction. The entire build system is so sane that I'll gladly pay the penalty of having to read & write Rust (as a novice) to have a sane build system I can trust to keep many parts of my build supply chain safe. As an example, you're not stuck. If A pins version <= X of dependency B, but C dep…
Comment linking /2019/04/24/how-rust-solved-dependency-hell
on “Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You”Submitted Rust Solved Dependency Hell as a story · 41 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Rust Solved Dependency Hell as a story · 2 points
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