C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages Videos Recommended on Hacker News (163)

C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 163 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 474 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Systems programming languages: C, C++, Rust, Go, Zig, D, memory management, ownership, concurrency, goroutines, templates, CppCon talks, Herb Sutter, Rob Pike.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”: “It really opened my eyes to how one could very elegantly make a very complex and high-performance heap allocator” — an HN commenter, 2025.