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William Elimbi

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William Elimbi's personal blog at elimbi.com covers programming, politics and philosophy. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Between Rust and Go, I Choose V (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-17, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2025

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link William Elimbi's blog for its comparison of Rust, Go and the V language. It is cited as one of several reviews of V in a thread about the V programming language.

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.

Self sovereign and self-hosting

Most-linked posts?

  1. Between Rust and Go, I Choose V (2024)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. Some relatively recent reviews, in English. Lots of good reviews in other languages (Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, French) as well. Keep in mind that V is still in beta. These are from fair and neutral parties: [1] Between Rust and Go, I Choose V (William Elimbi) https://elimbi.com/posts/rust-vs-go-vs-v/ [2] V Language: Simplicity Made Sexy (Hash Back) https://medium.com/@connect.hashblock/v-language-simplicity-... […

    Comment linking /posts/rust-vs-go-vs-v/

    on “The V Programming Language”
  2. Submitted Between Rust and Go, I Choose V (2024) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted I Was Anti-Imperialist Until I Wasn't as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Managing Multiple SaaS on a Single Server with Caddy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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