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Where's Walden? is a personal blog at whereswalden.com about programming, politics and economics. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Linked in an HN thread on whether Rust will become mainstream for systems programming. The one comment covers Rust profiling tools, static analysis, sanitizers and learning curve, without judging the post.

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.

Mozilla, politics, economics, law, backpacking, cycling, and other random desiderata

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm not sure what "concurrency tools" are. Profiling tools that work on C++ should work on Rust just as well; "perf" and "sysprof" do, at least. "static analyzers" are far less important in Rust since the compiler prevents most of the bugs that C++ static and dynamic checkers look for. Having said that, ASAN and TSAN do work with Rust! As for "complicated to learn" ... Rust does have a significant learning curve. Ho…

    Comment linking /2017/02/27/a-pitfall-in-c-low-level-object-creation-and-storage-and-how-to-avoid-it/

    on “Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems programming language?”
  2. Submitted C++ std::abs can return negative results as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Pbcopy and pbpaste for Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The JavaScript internationalization api as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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