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"In 2015, Front page posts on a given day would have "xyz in Go" and it was JavaScript before that." I use the prevalence of "In X" posts as a sneaky measure o
by jerf 5y ago
"In 2015, Front page posts on a given day would have "xyz in Go" and it was JavaScript before that."
I use the prevalence of "In X" posts as a sneaky measure of maturity of the given language. A language is "mature" when people start posting projects written in it on HN without highlighting the implementation language.
Rust & Go have both hit this, BTW. But only a couple of years ago, and you can still definitely see "In Rust/Go" posts with some regularity, so they haven't hit full maturity, where it wouldn't even cross the mind of a poster to mention Rust or Go as if it were a weird thing.