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This article leaves me with more questions than answers after reading it. Has the author written a TUI for lobste.rs in another language before? How was the ex
by mikece 7y ago
This article leaves me with more questions than answers after reading it. Has the author written a TUI for lobste.rs in another language before? How was the experience different by using Rust? Where there any "Aha!" moments during this exercise which makes the author think that Rust could replace other languages in their daily work?
- vertex-four 7y agoI mean, the author probably just picked Rust as a language because they like Rust, the same way that most people pick languages for small projects.
- mikece 7y agoYes... but this hit the front page of Hacker News: why? Just because it has "Rust" in the title? I was hoping for a little insight or, you know, _news_...
- vertex-four 7y agoTerminal-based interfaces for HN-like websites are generally popular on HN.
- hu3 7y ago> but this hit the front page of Hacker News Because it has rust in the title. Its community have a disproportionate tendency to shove generally unninteresting content into frontpages.
- pnako 7y agoEvery other year there is a trendy language, and if you write a Tetris clone with it you can write a blog post about it. Nowadays it's Rust, tomorrow it will be something else. Project idea: a visualization of trendy languages on HN, written in Kotlin