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Totally agree. It's not good for HN to have this kind of repetitive language promotion on the front page. I could see if this was the first major project writte

Totally agree. It's not good for HN to have this kind of repetitive language promotion on the front page. I could see if this was the first major project written in the language, which would make it noteworthy, but something like this needs to stand on its own without the upvotes of Rust fans.

busterarm 5y ago
It bothers me that we don't view it as a problem on this board the fact that we have an entire upvote/downvote brigade that reacts purely on whether you're speaking good or ill about Rust. I'm not one to tell moderators what to do but on some boards people get told off severely for such behavior. "x in rust"[1] threads are so prevalent that they should get a ranking penalty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22in%20rust%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- sodality2 5y ago
  Disagree- three of the first six most recent submissions containing "in rust" are simply educational/about the rust language in general and not showing off a project (while using "rust" as a selling point). https://i.imgur.com/WCD7iem.png https://i.imgur.com/WCD7iem.png
  - jhgb 5y ago
    Why not the fifth entry? That seems similar to the highlighted ones.
    - sodality2 5y ago
      Yep, that one is informative as well. My bad!
mbreese 5y ago
This is the way it’s always been though. First it was Java, then Ruby, then Clojure, then Go, then Node, and now Rust. As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them. At first it’s a novelty, but it is often useful to see what the strengths and weaknesses are of a language to implement an existing project. Eventually, it becomes annoying to have “written in X” attached to articles and links, but soon, that will diminish. The only time when I think it’s really appropriate for a mature language is when the language itself is a feature. But that is really rare for that to be the case. Other languages (eg Python, Haskell and Erlang) are in the mix too, but more evenly distributed and less fad-ish. This is just part of the hype cycle of languages. I’m not saying Rust is only a fad, but we are definitely in that part of the cycle for Rust.
- dgb23 5y ago
  I think it matters to communicate the language/tech in an open source project specifically.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  > As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them. Lately I've been thinking, it's kind of funny how the modern development mindset is so all about code reuse what with its giant dependency graphs and reliance on cross-platform frameworks; and yet the favorite sport is still rewriting perfectly good applications in the new hotness.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Because as fashion driven industry that is the only way many will get experience on language X down on their CV or favourite source code repository for head hunters.

busterarm 5y ago

It bothers me that we don't view it as a problem on this board the fact that we have an entire upvote/downvote brigade that reacts purely on whether you're speaking good or ill about Rust. I'm not one to tell moderators what to do but on some boards people get told off severely for such behavior. "x in rust"[1] threads are so prevalent that they should get a ranking penalty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22in%20rust%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

sodality2 5y ago
Disagree- three of the first six most recent submissions containing "in rust" are simply educational/about the rust language in general and not showing off a project (while using "rust" as a selling point). https://i.imgur.com/WCD7iem.png https://i.imgur.com/WCD7iem.png
- jhgb 5y ago
  Why not the fifth entry? That seems similar to the highlighted ones.
  - sodality2 5y ago
    Yep, that one is informative as well. My bad!

mbreese 5y ago

This is the way it’s always been though. First it was Java, then Ruby, then Clojure, then Go, then Node, and now Rust. As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them. At first it’s a novelty, but it is often useful to see what the strengths and weaknesses are of a language to implement an existing project. Eventually, it becomes annoying to have “written in X” attached to articles and links, but soon, that will diminish. The only time when I think it’s really appropriate for a mature language is when the language itself is a feature. But that is really rare for that to be the case. Other languages (eg Python, Haskell and Erlang) are in the mix too, but more evenly distributed and less fad-ish. This is just part of the hype cycle of languages. I’m not saying Rust is only a fad, but we are definitely in that part of the cycle for Rust.

dgb23 5y ago
I think it matters to communicate the language/tech in an open source project specifically.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
> As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them. Lately I've been thinking, it's kind of funny how the modern development mindset is so all about code reuse what with its giant dependency graphs and reliance on cross-platform frameworks; and yet the favorite sport is still rewriting perfectly good applications in the new hotness.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Because as fashion driven industry that is the only way many will get experience on language X down on their CV or favourite source code repository for head hunters.