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Re:The GIL and its effects on Python multithreading on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:01AM (#28704123)
> ... Go and node.js are popular and both do asynchronous stuff effortlessly (even though they are single threaded typically)

I know that I'm being very pedantic here, but Go is not a "typically single threaded" language. Go has as fine control over it's threads (goroutines) as C does over it's threads. Go is very capable of true parallellism.

Re:Would love a nice golang mentor on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:38AM (#28179375)
Maybe you should expose some way of contacting you. I might be willing but it would be good to discuss some terms and expectations first
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:20PM (#27485457)
I wrote this (at work) to update versions in our projects from one place, and even partial versions. Saves me some headache and mental space every time. I know there are competitors but none I found was just simple, everything else was bloated with Git-integration or regex search instead.

https://gitlab.com/MaxIV/app-maxiv-semver

You have a “Try it out” button that forces me to create an account and login. This is a turn of for me, completely. So, no trying out for me
Since Swift got ABI “stable” stamp the runtime and standard libraries is shipped with the OS, reducing the overhead by ~50 mb.
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#23191842)
What is the algorithm for the speed test? How do you make the test? I’m soon getting fiber and I am interested in this thing