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Veit Heller
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Veit Heller writes Veit's Blog, a personal blog at blog.veitheller.de about programming and philosophy. Since 2017, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Veit Heller's blog for posts about Carp, a statically typed Lisp without a garbage collector. The posts cover the Carp compiler's internals and an drawing and animation framework built in Carp.
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.
The personal blog of Veit Heller
Most-linked posts?
- Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-25
- Tracing np.add, all the way down2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-02
What Hacker News says?
some stuff here: https://blog.veitheller.de/Carp.html
Comment linking /Carp.html
on “Carp: A statically typed Lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications”Submitted Carp, a compiled Lisp with type inference and a borrow checker as a story · 252 points
HN discussionA couple of useful links: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp > Carp is a small programming language designed to work well for interactive and performance sensitive use cases like games, sound synthesis and visualizations. The key features of Carp are the following: * Automatic and deterministic memory management (no garbage collector or VM) * Inferred static types for great speed and reliability * Ownership tracking…
Comment linking /Carp.html
on “A walkthrough of the internals of the Carp compiler”Submitted Compiling at Compile Time as a story · 95 points
HN discussionIf you’re interested in how this works or would like to try it out you can also checkout the blog post I wrote about the system: https://blog.veitheller.de/Introducing_anima.html Please note that you have to have Carp and SDL2 (including SDL_image) installed.
Comment linking /Introducing_anima.html
on “Show HN: A simple drawing and animation framework in Carp”Submitted Tracing np.add, all the way down as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted A walkthrough of the internals of the Carp compiler as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Setf as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Once the cheat code is there as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A First Futamura Projection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitter Lessons and Premature Optimizations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carp in Glamorous Toolkit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metacarp: a self-hosting Carp compiler written in Carp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can one hear the gauge of a string? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Creation of Abulafia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Sudoku Solvers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Footnotes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing Classes as Scheme Macros as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted String patterns in Carp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixed Point Division as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Sudoku Solvers SIII, EII: Assembly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tracing np.add, all the way down as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A More Immediate Intuitive Appeal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I write and publish blog posts from Glamorous Toolkit I (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative Art over the Years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Sudoku Solvers: Dyalog APL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Simple Sudoku Solvers: Prolog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing an IDE in Glamorous Toolkit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lets Build a Quasiquoter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bad Idea (building a plug-in system for Python’s parser) as a story · 1 points
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