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Yi Wang
Personal blog · cxwangyi.wordpress.comprogramming
Yi Wang's personal blog at cxwangyi.wordpress.com covers programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Go, Racket and other languages: A comparison”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Yi Wang's posts for a Racket-versus-Go comparison, including a follow-up on a channel-pipeline benchmark, and for editing CSV files in Emacs. The comments only cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog ported from http://cxwangyi.blogspot.com
Most-linked posts?
- Go, Racket and other languages: A comparison3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-05-30
What Hacker News says?
Err, I'm not sure if I understand [2] correctly but Emacs's csv-align-fields displays CSVs pretty nicely: https://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/editing-csv-files-...
Comment linking /2014/05/09/editing-csv-files-using-emacs/
on “XSV – A fast CSV toolkit in Rust”Submitted Why Go? Use Racket as a story · 61 points
HN discussionIn the comments he says he changed his mind about Go, and the necessity of the efficiency gain over Racket. So there's some confusion apparently. https://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/why-go-use-racket/...
Comment linking /2012/07/22/why-go-use-racket/
on “Why Go? Use Racket”Submitted Why Go? Use Racket as a story · 42 points
HN discussionThe author has a follow-up post http://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/chinese-whispers-in... Each thread reads from the channel to its left and writes the processed input into the channel to its right. Except that the programs he posted are flowing the other way(start with rightmost, read final value from leftmost). The implementation of the author's wording needs a slight change. Go implementation: package main…
Comment linking /2012/07/29/chinese-whispers-in-racket-and-go/
on “Why Go? Use Racket”Submitted Go, Racket and other languages: A comparison as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe author's postscript links to this follow-up blog post: http://cxwangyi.wordpress.com/2012/07/29/chinese-whispers-in... To me, the speed at which the code executes is a second derivative problem - this is to say that if a language gets version 0.1 deployed two months faster, then it is faster in a more important sense. A hammer and screws is more useful than a screwdriver and nails - intact it is more useful than…
Comment linking /2012/07/29/chinese-whispers-in-racket-and-go/
on “Why Go? Use Racket”