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Kevin Hoffman
Personal blog · kevinhoffman.medium.comprogrammingsystems
Kevin Hoffman's personal blog at kevinhoffman.medium.com covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Hoffman's Medium posts on modeling non-blocking interactions with promises and futures. One commenter cites them to explain how promise next takes a continuation.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-11
What Hacker News says?
From a cursory look and from my understanding of [1] and [2], promise next takes the continuation to apply to the future (elsewhere known as 'then'). [1] https://kevinhoffman.medium.com/modeling-non-blocking-intera... [2] https://stdlib.ponylang.io/promises-Promise/
Comment linking /modeling-non-blocking-interactions-with-actors-in-pony-fae59151246a
on “What could Go wrong with a mutex”Submitted Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Async and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day as a story · 1 points
HN discussion