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Steve Dower
Personal blog · stevedower.id.au/blogprogramming
Steve Dower's personal blog at stevedower.id.au covers programming. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Building extensions for Python 3.5”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on why Python is slow, where the one comment covers CPython C-extension compatibility and changes to how Windows DLLs are called. The comment does not judge the linked post.
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.
Musings and Mutterings
Most-linked posts?
- Building extensions for Python 3.53 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-08-26
- What makes Python a great language?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-16
What Hacker News says?
"I think one of the reasons Pypy isn't more popular is because its C interoperability story is weaker than the reference Python implementation" The CPython crowd apparently made some change between CPython 3.4 and CPython 3.5 which changed how Windows DLLs are called. This broke Py2exe, which no longer works for the current release of CPython. [1] CPython's approach to C extensions usually requires having the same M…
Comment linking /blog/building-for-python-3-5/
on “Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014)”Submitted What makes Python a great language? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes Python a great language? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why are there so many Python installers? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building extensions for Python 3.5 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building extensions for Python 3.5 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asynchronous API for Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most critical Python code metric – Steve Dower as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What makes Python a great language? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
