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Travis Finkenauer
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Travis Finkenauer's personal blog at travisf.net covers security and programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment links the post as an example of numeric code with Rust generics, to support a point about generics being complicated in several languages. The linked posts cover generic numeric code.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Ironically generics don't necessarily solve this. C# requires multiple implementations of numeric methods because int/float/etc don't sit in a type hierarchy. It also doesn't really work in Java either because you have to use the Object types. Even in rust this looks pretty complicated: https://travisf.net/rust-generic-numbers Maybe it's easy in c++? I've seem a similar comment made on almost every discussion of thi…
Comment linking /rust-generic-numbers
on “Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft”Submitted A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety as a story · 190 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (2016 Edition) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion