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Rust2015–2021
autumnai / leaf

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Open Machine Intelligence Framework for Hackers. (GPU/CPU)

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What it is

Open Machine Intelligence Framework for Hackers. (GPU/CPU)

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

> I get it, you don't like seeing Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) posted about. No you don't get it. I love hearing about such products - from the people who love using it so…

hobofan used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-11-10 13:46:02 UTC to 2021-06-01 11:39:18 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 3 submissions, 5 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC835
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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hobofan·Apr 22, 2018Recommendation phrase
> I get it, you don't like seeing Open Source (MIT/ZLIB/Apache2) posted about. No you don't get it. I love hearing about such products - from the people who love using it so much that they feel the need to spread the word around. Submissions about project news are also great, because they can be separately up/downvoted, and don't ride on the coattails of trending submissions. That plus deceitful marketing tricks ("ranked #2 on Github" for a buzzword keyword you picked out, doesn't mean shit) is clearly spam in my book. > and I don't profit from it Is it not true that you run a VC-funded company that is behind gun, as you have claimed on other occasions? If it's VC-funded there probably is a profit goal in the foreseeable timeline. > ~8K developers in our community Stars on Github doesn't translate to community members, especially if they
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are gained by high-publicity actions, like posts on HN. This is meant as advice coming from someone who made the mistake of seeing them equivalent in the past. We got ~5k stars via HN for Leaf[0], and I know that only about 10-20 people tried to even use the library. Judging from the activity on the gun repo, it does look to be a little bit better, but not by much. [0]: https://github.com/autumnai/leaf
In Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database
hobofan·Jan 4, 2018
> 1. Why are you're learning a language at the same time you're trying to launch an MVP? And a fairly involved language such as rust. Back when we decided to build Leaf[0] we were in a situation where we needed a language with the characteristics similar to the ones of C, C++, Rust (embeddable, no runtime, etc.). Before starting development on Leaf we didn't have any extensive experience in any of those languages, and I still think that Rust was the right choice for the project. I'd guess that the requirements of the MVP were similar. Since he also noted that it's his first time programming full-time, he had to learn _some_ language. Sure, it's not optimal to learn a core competency of your business while founding it, but I can also tell you from personal experience that sometimes that's still a better choice than the alternatives. > And
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a fairly involved language such as rust. I'd say Rust is only as involved as your requirements of it: - You don't have to deal with raw pointers? -> No need to learn `unsafe` - You're not particularly worried about extreme performance/memory usage at first? -> Clone now, learn lifetimes later [0]: https://github.com/autumnai/leaf
In My journey with Rust in 2017 — The good, the bad, the weird

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