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Thomas Leitner

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Thomas Leitner's personal blog at gettalong.org covers programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Ruby 2.4 Performance Looking Good”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2016–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment is about the Ruby 2.4.0 release, covering NEWS items, benchmarks and funding. It does not discuss the linked writing, so HN's view of the blog is unclear.

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.

Thomas Leitner's website and blog about Ruby, software engineering and the joy of solving problems.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Ruby 2.4 Performance Looking Good
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. there are lots of small improvement in ruby too, they are just not on this release notice. Check the NEWS[0] file for a bunch more. And Ruby 2.4 is about 10% faster than 2.3.3 according to some non-micro benchmarks[1]. Re funding: AFAIU the problem for Ruby seems to be the paucity of long term sponsorship deals, rather than one-off funding. Python has a bunch of those[2]. The lack of an important "ruby foundation" m…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/ruby24-performance-looking-good.html

    on “Ruby 2.4.0 Released”
  2. Submitted 10 Years of HexaPDF as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2 as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Benchmarking Ruby 2.5 to 3.1 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Ruby 2.4 Performance Looking Good as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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