Best of 2016

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2016. 381 posts.

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The Path to Rust

About six months ago, I started my first large-scale Rust-based project. I’d dabbled with the language in its early days, but back then it was a different beast, and not particularly approachable. I decided to try again, and I’m glad I did. Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is…