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    source{d} Blog

    blog.sourced.tech · Company blog · on HN since 2016

    The source{d} engineering blog covers machine learning on source code, GitHub data analysis and Go tools like a Git library and ORM.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for its GitHub data analyses and Go tooling; the one comment given here is a general remark on C++ safety, not about the blog.

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    21HN people shared it
    36linked in comments
    352story points
    Jul 2017last shared

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Analyzing GitHub, how developers change programming languages over time
      1 person · 186 points · first shared 2017 · 56 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Towards Yinyang K-means on GPU
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    3. 3
      100 Awesome Women in the Open-Source Community You Should Know
      1 person · 34 points · first shared 2016 · 5 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Kallax: Why we built yet another ORM for Go
      3 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Setting Up Google Cloud Dataproc with Jupyter and Python 3
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
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      Measuring code sentiment in a Git repository
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Fun with GitHub repositories statistics
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2016 · 4 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Comparing Git trees in Go
      3 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Workdays vs. Weekends and Morning vs. Night GitHub Commit Analysis
      3 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Babelfish is a universal code parser
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • pcwaltonJul 2017

      There have been lots of solutions like "SaferCPlusPlus" over the years. In my view, the real reasons why these have not been adopted widely are (1) aversion to any sort of runtime overhead greater than zero; (2) cognitive overhead of introducing new language machinery, type-level or otherwise; (3) interoperability with existing code; (4) few people want to be the first to adopt these kinds of tools in production due to the perceived risk; (5) denial that memory safety problems are indeed problems.

      If you're going for wide usage, I think it's actually easier to start over with a new language rather than to try to graft safety features onto C++. A lot of low-level folks don't realize it, but C and C++ are no longer the behemoths they used to be. If you look at the languages people are switching to rather than just absolute usage share, the usage chart [1] paints a very different picture.

      [1]: https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/eigenvect_stack_22lang.png

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