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Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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Re: Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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Is this going to remain free? I´d love an open source project like this where I could run the tests in my own machine.

Unfortunately, I dont think you can run the tests on your own machine.Tests run on jude0, which takes about 20 GB of RAM to run

So what's the long term plan? If tests require a bunch of ram, scaling costs seem at odds with "Free Forever". Will you eventually have a pay walled tier? Or will you seek donations to pay for infrastructure or...

I like the idea of a community FOSS or source available offering, I have a lovely pile of ram from the before times (when it didn't cost an arm and a leg).

Re: Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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There's a book about doing this with Git. I wonder how much of the content is cribbed from sources like that, laundered through LLMs. https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

I've been watching this space closely and have been on the lookout for new releases. Besides "Building Git", there is also "Building a Debugger"[0], "Writing a C compiler"[1], "Crafting Interpreters"[2], "The Raytracer Challenge"[3], and a few others that I can't vouch for as they appear to be low-quality compared to the ones I listed out. The potential for technical authors in this space is enormous. [0]: https://no…

Writing a C Compiler is really good. I enjoyed myself doing it with Rust and Zig.

Re: Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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I've been watching this space closely and have been on the lookout for new releases. Besides "Building Git", there is also "Building a Debugger"[0], "Writing a C compiler"[1], "Crafting Interpreters"[2], "The Raytracer Challenge"[3], and a few others that I can't vouch for as they appear to be low-quality compared to the ones I listed out. The potential for technical authors in this space is enormous. [0]: https://no…

Writing a C Compiler is really good. I enjoyed myself doing it with Rust and Zig.

Yeah. I did it in Rust only, but went a bit farther than the book and implemented some constructs that were not found in the book. I was able to compile my other compiler written in C with the C compiler I had written in Rust.

Re: Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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Signing up is throwing `rate limit exceeded, please try again later`

bots are hitting tons of endpoints bro. You can keep using the platform as guest

I would recommend removing "bro" from your lexicon, at least how you used it here. It comes across as aggressive and immature.

Not a huge deal, but you'll get better results in life without it.

Re: Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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All the codecrafters content is available on Github too, for free.

But can you run it on their platform? NO, you need to run it on your own machine which takes a bit of work. And we have over 80 courses waaay over whatever codecrafters has

if you're learning code challenges you should probably learn how to run code locally.

Re: Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch

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bots are hitting tons of endpoints bro. You can keep using the platform as guest

I would recommend removing "bro" from your lexicon, at least how you used it here. It comes across as aggressive and immature. Not a huge deal, but you'll get better results in life without it.

bro, relax
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