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I actually stumbled upon[1] a data source for you! Seems there is some activity in the "Rewrite it in Rust" domain, and there is a collection of it being sugges

I actually stumbled upon[1] a data source for you! Seems there is some activity in the "Rewrite it in Rust" domain, and there is a collection of it being suggested in a lot of places: https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR - [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561093

steveklabnik 6y ago
Right, but this is what I mean. If this is the best collection of stuff, well, it doesn't make a compelling argument that there is a huge scourge of this around the internet. Even if we assume these are all legit issues, there have been 66 total in the five years this repository has existed. That is a miniscule number. If we actually look at the issues, many of them are not instances of an outsider demanding a project being rewritten in Rust. Let's look at the most recent five issues, to pick a random sample: * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/62 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/62 This is showing a branch that the team themselves made. It is not an outside demand to re-write it in Rust. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/59 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/59 This one does appear to be legit. Not a ton of drama here, a polite conversation that was closed without issue, even though its existence is generally a bit annoying, yes. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/58 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/58 This again is someone who is doing this for their own project. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/57 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/57 This is a transcription of a joke in a telegram chat. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/53 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/53 This is a person who opened an issue on this project, but does not appear to have asked upstream about it. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/51 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/51 This one is amusing, given the article, but again, isn't an upstream request. Let's look at recent closed issues: * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/67 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/67 This is a person who made this issue, then two minutes later, opened an issue being a jerk on the target repo. Yes, that is annoying for the person who had the issue opened, but is hardly an indication that these are real requests. This person is trolling. The next seven most recent closed issues are someone who has just opened issues with random technologies they thought they'd be funny. I was only gonna do five, like the opened issues, but it's clear this is a series, so have a bonus two. So already, we have like, let's round it up: two real issues here, out of fourteen. I am not convinced. (Your hacker news link seems like nonsense to me?)

steveklabnik 6y ago

Right, but this is what I mean. If this is the best collection of stuff, well, it doesn't make a compelling argument that there is a huge scourge of this around the internet. Even if we assume these are all legit issues, there have been 66 total in the five years this repository has existed. That is a miniscule number. If we actually look at the issues, many of them are not instances of an outsider demanding a project being rewritten in Rust. Let's look at the most recent five issues, to pick a random sample: * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/62 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/62 This is showing a branch that the team themselves made. It is not an outside demand to re-write it in Rust. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/59 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/59 This one does appear to be legit. Not a ton of drama here, a polite conversation that was closed without issue, even though its existence is generally a bit annoying, yes. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/58 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/58 This again is someone who is doing this for their own project. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/57 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/57 This is a transcription of a joke in a telegram chat. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/53 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/53 This is a person who opened an issue on this project, but does not appear to have asked upstream about it. * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/51 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/51 This one is amusing, given the article, but again, isn't an upstream request. Let's look at recent closed issues: * https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/67 https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues/67 This is a person who made this issue, then two minutes later, opened an issue being a jerk on the target repo. Yes, that is annoying for the person who had the issue opened, but is hardly an indication that these are real requests. This person is trolling. The next seven most recent closed issues are someone who has just opened issues with random technologies they thought they'd be funny. I was only gonna do five, like the opened issues, but it's clear this is a series, so have a bonus two. So already, we have like, let's round it up: two real issues here, out of fourteen. I am not convinced. (Your hacker news link seems like nonsense to me?)