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tiehuis.github.io
Personal blog · tiehuis.github.ioprogramming
tiehuis.github.io is a personal blog at tiehuis.github.io about programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Iterative Replacement of C with Zig”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its post on incrementally replacing C with Zig, one codebase section at a time. A second comment cites the same post as a guide to the approach.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ramblings mostly about programming.
Most-linked posts?
- Iterative Replacement of C with Zig2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-14
What Hacker News says?
> you can start new sections of your code base in Zig and gradually start eating your legacy C/C++ code until you have a project written in Zig instead of C. http://tiehuis.github.io/iterative-replacement-of-c-with-zig
Comment linking /iterative-replacement-of-c-with-zig
on “I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig”Submitted Big Integers in Zig as a story · 72 points
HN discussionIt's a systems programming language described as a replacement for C, this blog post shows how to incrementally replace C with Zig in your codebase: http://tiehuis.github.io/blog/zig1.html The single-page documentation is here: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/ It seems like it would be attractive if you want a systems language that's much more modern than C (and comes with build and testing systems) but you…
Comment linking /blog/zig1.html
on “Ziglang – robust, optimal, and maintainable programming language”Submitted Iterative Replacement of C with Zig as a story · 3 points
HN discussion