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The Rust hype machine continues unabated. Silicon Valley is just as vulnerable to tech hype as the general public is to political hype. Indeed, Silicon Valley t
by chmaynard 5y ago
The Rust hype machine continues unabated. Silicon Valley is just as vulnerable to tech hype as the general public is to political hype. Indeed, Silicon Valley thrives on and depends on hype of all kinds. Hype is used to generate interest among venture capital firms and keep the cash flowing. The best example is Theranos, but there are many others. The Rust language may be as wonderful as its proponents claim. Regardless, I really wish they would shut up.
- api 5y agoI'm gonna assume you've never learned it. A provably safe C replacement is pretty useful and its adoption could do away with a ton of common bugs and security vulnerabilities. The Theranos comparison is asinine. Rust works, Theranos did not.
- Verdex 5y agoDude. It's the internet. There's going to be a lot of people saying things that you don't like. What I'm trying to say is that your wish that people saying things you dont like would just "shut up" is probably not going to come true. [Also, the article basically talks about how the person doesn't want to learn rust but doesn't think they have a choice not because rust is somehow "right" but because there are a lot of people who want to continue to use rust. This is about as far as you can get from a Rust Hype Machine as you can get without actually attacking the language.]
- nindalf 5y agoHN rules say we shouldn’t imply a person hasn’t read the article. But I’m finding it difficult to reason how a person could have read the article and then written that comment.
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- worik 5y agoHype. Yep. Some times something comes along that lives up to the hype. I think Rust does that. It has taken thirty plus years of experience system programming and used it to create a masterpiece. A real triumph of design by committee.