Best of 2019

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2019. 149 posts.

Programming Languages
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Parallelism in Crystal

Crystal has made a huge step forward to have parallelism as a first class citizen. In short, you can set up the number of worker threads on runtime and each new fiber will be scheduled to run on one of them. Channel and select will work seamlessly. You are allowed to share memory between workers, but you will probably…