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Stories by tomaka on Medium
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Stories by tomaka on Medium is a personal blog at tomaka.medium.com about systems and programming. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A look back at asynchronous Rust”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tomaka's Medium post on the problems with asynchronous Rust, which one commenter calls a good summary of the current issues, more comprehensive than a HN comment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A look back at asynchronous Rust7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-03-19
What Hacker News says?
It was heavily discussed previously. In particular, it triggered this response from Rust contributor withoutboats: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410487 And this blog post from someone who did spend a lot of time working with async rust: https://tomaka.medium.com/a-look-back-at-asynchronous-rust-d...
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on “Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work”Submitted A look back at asynchronous Rust as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIn the most perfect of perfect situations that's all you need. In reality it isn't nearly as simple as that. There's been a lot of discussion about the pitfalls of async Rust recently, highlighting the issues. Here's a good one: https://tomaka.medium.com/a-look-back-at-asynchronous-rust-d...
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on “How Safe Is Zig?”Submitted A look back at asynchronous Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this blog post by tomaka gives a good summary of the current issues with async rust. Certainly much more comprehensive than what you can write in a hacker news post: https://tomaka.medium.com/a-look-back-at-asynchronous-rust-d... It highlights some of the same problems: - “Just spawn a new task” - The Send trait isn’t what it means anymore
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on “Async rust – are we doing it all wrong?”Submitted Everything I Know About Networking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look back at asynchronous Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Operating Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look back at asynchronous Rust. (2021) as a story · 1 points
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