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Has this become a ‘smell’? I tend to start my HN comments that are going be negative with versions of this, or my habitual “Genuine question, ..”; but if this is going to flag read…

I wish I could give more up votes for this comment. These made my Friday night. Thanks for the links.

I wrote the following and then realized it sounds a little pretentious, but I think it get my point across regardless. Also, I’m not a scholar of Buddhism or a practicing Buddhist,…

The way you phrased your second block, particularly your last sentence is exceptional. I’m not sure if I agree with the substance (I’m pretty sure I’m about 90% there), but the phr…

When I decided to really learn how to program, after dabbling in very basic C++ from books and using BASIC this article and Eric S. Raymond’s ‘How to Become a Hacker’ [1] (CATB is …

That depends mostly on the jurisdiction, the structure of public defense in said jurisdiction, and the quality, resourcing, and culture of the individual Public Denfender’s Office.…

Guilty Gear and Hi-Fi Rush are both Unreal 4 games and a lot of the comments in this thread are about the Lumen+Nanite ‘grain’ that seems very present in Unreal 5. I certainly thin…

I think this is a situation where the term systems programming is too un- or ill-defined to be anything but a semantic argument in waiting. I am not particularly fond of the broade…

What are you describing as a frame update? I am trying to be as generous as possible to your comment and thereby assuming there is a disconnect between my understanding of ‘frame u…

Do you know of any articles, tests, or implementation breakdowns that show this. I don’t have the personal experience to agree, but if that’s the case Inwould really like to know h…

If this is a joke, I actually chuckled. But, maybe this is a terminology issue conflating an embeddable language with a language used for embedded programming. I think this is one …

I agree with your objection to treating goroutines as the baseline implementation of fibers. However, I would disagree with categorizing the feature as a library feature vs a langu…

Not to derail this thread on Mach, which as I stated in another comment has some pretty appealing characteristics for me, but since you’re here and the dev of another ‘low-level’ p…

I find the goals of explicitness and maintainability to be really pitched to my current taste. From a quick view it looks like the syntax is approaching a local maximum for conform…

In the ‘Caveats’ section the author discusses that the advice only applies to types constructed via Record Syntax and that datatypes with positional arguments are exempt from the r…

After so wrote the comment below I realized that it really is just ‘um, actually…’ about discussing using concurrency vs implementing it. It’s probably not needed, but I do like my…

Is there a reason Rust would not (as it was done in the ‘good ole days’) index the table via pointer arithmetic from .data? Also, I’m assuming that because you are discussing new d…

Regarding your mention of compiler magic and Swift, I don’t know much about the language, but I have read a handful of discussions/blogs about the compiler and the techniques used …

I don’t know if the language is yours, but I think the wording and its intended meaning (the sentence starting with ‘The core implementation…’) may be one of the most concise state…

I think your comment leads to discussing a distinct third ‘cause’ for open source development: where a developer realizes their ambition is greater than their abilities, either in …

I think your idealized list of attributes of “open source” is admirable. However, the apprenticeship, comradery, and support are a specific and often sought out feature of some dev…

I always think about this section when I consider making my personal programming language public. I think if language development was, in 2026, happing the way ESR describes Linux …

I think you have confused RMS (Richard Stallman) and ESR (Eric S. Raymond). It was ESR that coined and popularized the cathedral and bazaar development analogy and terminology. It …

True, apparently I got backspace happy when Inposted the reply on mobile. I was talking about the belief by a perspective juror that law enforcement personnel are more credible or …

I agree that from the perspective of the implementation of async code, it is in many ways an application doing its own threading and context switching. However, your Parent comment…