HN is not a historical archive, much less one of how used programming languages are. Rust is interesting to a lot of people because it's fundamentally differen

HN is not a historical archive, much less one of how used programming languages are. Rust is interesting to a lot of people because it's fundamentally different in a few aspects than most other languages, and that difference also happens to coincide with some people's complaints about how hard it is to program safe systems. I'm not really sure what you're expecting. Haskell gets a vastly disproportionate amount of time here compared to it's actual usage also, and PHP gets almost no coverage at all, but we all know it's out there in force, and so are the people that program it. Should we be pushing for a lot more PHP content? What about COBOL content? That's still in use, and I can't remember the last time I saw a submission about that.