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Whiteknight's Blog
Personal blog · whiteknight.github.ioprogramming
Whiteknight's Blog is a personal blog at whiteknight.github.io about programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Whiteknight's blog for its writing on Parrot, the Parrot Foundation and Perl 6, including a retrospective from a former Parrot developer. Commenters compare its views with other accounts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/01/15/parrottheend.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-03
What Hacker News says?
I assume your second whiteknight link was meant to be this[1]. It's interesting comparing his view of Parrot with yours. He may share some feeling with you about Perl 6, but it appears his conclusion about why Parrot didn't work out is quite different. It appears he goes out of his way to explain that Perl 6 did what it had to to get past Parrot's failings: The P6 folks were developing their own bindings which used…
Comment linking /2015/01/15/parrottheend.html
on “Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015”I wrote my experiences with Parrot in specific: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.h... I did not write but agree with this view of the Parrot Foundation: http://whiteknight.github.io/2015/01/14/parrotfoundation.htm... Similarly, this retrospective from another ex-Parrot developer has similar feelings about the P6 language: http://whiteknight.github.io/2015/01/14/parrotfoundation.htm... I per…
Comment linking /2015/01/14/parrotfoundation.html
on “Perl 6 developers will attempt to make a Version 1.0 release by Christmas 2015”Isn't this a general problem of cross-language VMs? Different languages need different object models, and different data representations. [0] At least according to one Parrot developer, the Parrot object model was one of the biggest pain points for porting JS/Ruby/Python to Parrot... Where that object model was meant to be universal, and work for any language. [1] That said, IronPython does still semi-exist [2], and…
Comment linking /2015/01/15/parrottheend.html
on “Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (2007)”