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The Scientific Coder
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The Scientific Coder is a personal blog at scientificcoder.com about programming and science. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Art of Multiple Dispatch – a visulization of type lattice”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on the Zig programming language, such as why it is appealing. The one comment is a technical explanation of Zig's operators and methods, not a judgment of the writing.
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.
A scientific software developer with over a decade of experience in academia, startups and industry. My mission is to turn you into an elite numerical computing professional.
Most-linked posts?
- The Art of Multiple Dispatch – a visulization of type lattice2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-20
- How to solve the two language problem?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-09
What Hacker News says?
For a start it means you can much more naturally define arithmetic operators for a variety of built in and user-defined types, and this can all be done with libraries not the core language. Because methods aren't "inside" objects, but just look like functions taking (references to) structs, you can add your own methods to someone else's types. It's really hard to give a concise example that doesn't look artificial,…
Comment linking /the-art-of-multiple-dispatch
on “Why is Zig so cool?”Submitted Extreme Multi-Threading: C++ and Julia 1.9 Integration as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to solve the two language problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Scalable Inner-Source Ecosystem for Collaborative Development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to solve the two language problem? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Art of Multiple Dispatch – a visulization of type lattice as a story · 1 points
HN discussion