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I think the tools speak for themselves. They get use and then they get included in repos, not just by virtue of the fact they were written in lang X.

• colanderman 8y ago
  Then why advertise that? Why not advertise their benefits instead (fast, cross-platform, easy install)? "Written in X" is only useful to advertise pedagogy or integration.
  • mmirate 8y ago
    Shorthand. Compare the lengths of these two strings: > fast, cross-platform, easy install > Written in Rust Also note how the second statement expresses a single concept; whereas the first statement is a list of concepts that must be memorized and reproduced by rote, and is therefore constantly at-risk of being stated incompletely or inaccurately. (And it is incomplete: there are many more reasons why "Written in Rust" might be important, such as correctness, security, and ease of maintenance/refactoring.) * * * * * Alternatively: why convey a set of vague descriptors when you can instead convey precisely why they are applicable, and let the audience's pre-existing memories fill in the details for them?
    • colanderman 8y ago
      Like I said, "written in X" conveys pedagogy and integration. (Or, if we're being cynical, hip language clickbait.) It's not a very good shorthand.
  • leshow 8y ago
    Because it's a post for hackernews, and we're mostly engineers and developers so we care to know what it's written in. Rust is a awesome new language with growing popularity and it gets hits whenever it's posted.