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I 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.
by vertex-four 7y ago
I 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