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Congrats and thank you for your hard work. Now for a contrarian comment: whenever I read "in Rust", or whatever language, it does not make it cool or interesti

Congrats and thank you for your hard work. Now for a contrarian comment: whenever I read "in Rust", or whatever language, it does not make it cool or interesting to me. Rather, it makes it sound like it is a POC or training material. Which is unfortunate because eventually, as a user, I only care for features, not for tech.

capableweb 4y ago
Not everything has to be cool or interesting to you. To be fair to the authors of Lemmy, the only mention of Rust on the project page is "Server is written in rust", while the submission for some reason contains Rust like it's some highlight of the software. Since we usually can't change too much of our environment, but we can change how we react to our environment, my recommendation would be to simply just ignore the "in X" in titles you see here, as what you say is true, it basically doesn't matter. If the software is shit, it's shit, no matter if it's shit in PHP or in Rust.
- xcambar 4y ago
  I tried to be explicit that my comment was anecdotal, but apparently failed.
- antifa 4y ago
  > "Server is written in rust" Unfortunately this makes it a "new reddit clone" (with websockets and react SPA) not an old reddit or hn clone.
crabbygrabby 4y ago
I like knowing what technologies were made with to some extent. It can give me a feel for what type of bugs I might run into or what the installation process looks like. Agreed to some extent though, once something is done, what it was written in - should be irrelevant to the end user. To be fair though, a few weeks ago there were people on here bashing rust claiming it's like impossible to use, async didn't work, the code is unreadable, shouldn't do web dev with it, etc. Meanwhile, here's yet another example of rust being just fine. So I'm glad they shared the technology they used.
renewiltord 4y ago
Right, and it means something to me in that the code is easy to modify. So I guess the choice is you as a user or me as a user. I imagine this site, at least, leans towards people who hack on things (hence name).
- xcambar 4y ago
  True. Let me clarify that I approach software as a solutions first, meaning, I am a user first. When said software is open source, it allows me to hack on it, improve it, etc. What is imporrant is rhat if there's no perceived value for me as a user, no matter the tech, I'll most probably ignore it. On the other hand, I could learn any tech should I need it to propose more value to a software. That is why I couldn't care less about the "in Rust/Python/Haskell/Zig/..." I'm not opposed to people doing that, I'm just the kind of user that takes zero interest into it until I want to contribute to add value to the software. Let's say I'm product-first rather than tech-first.
mro_name 4y ago
While I share your sentiment, some technologies automatically come with certain features. It's the (evtl. statically) compiled versus the scripted ones. And among the scripted again is one ubiquitous and can be lean on dependencies (sh). So IMO there is certain interest in how it's built. And it may attract contributors, inspire or serve as a warning.
lijogdfljk 4y ago
I always find the language comments strange. I'm on HN, i want to see the language/tools/etc things are written in.

capableweb 4y ago

Not everything has to be cool or interesting to you. To be fair to the authors of Lemmy, the only mention of Rust on the project page is "Server is written in rust", while the submission for some reason contains Rust like it's some highlight of the software. Since we usually can't change too much of our environment, but we can change how we react to our environment, my recommendation would be to simply just ignore the "in X" in titles you see here, as what you say is true, it basically doesn't matter. If the software is shit, it's shit, no matter if it's shit in PHP or in Rust.

xcambar 4y ago
I tried to be explicit that my comment was anecdotal, but apparently failed.
antifa 4y ago
> "Server is written in rust" Unfortunately this makes it a "new reddit clone" (with websockets and react SPA) not an old reddit or hn clone.

crabbygrabby 4y ago

I like knowing what technologies were made with to some extent. It can give me a feel for what type of bugs I might run into or what the installation process looks like. Agreed to some extent though, once something is done, what it was written in - should be irrelevant to the end user. To be fair though, a few weeks ago there were people on here bashing rust claiming it's like impossible to use, async didn't work, the code is unreadable, shouldn't do web dev with it, etc. Meanwhile, here's yet another example of rust being just fine. So I'm glad they shared the technology they used.

renewiltord 4y ago

Right, and it means something to me in that the code is easy to modify. So I guess the choice is you as a user or me as a user. I imagine this site, at least, leans towards people who hack on things (hence name).

xcambar 4y ago
True. Let me clarify that I approach software as a solutions first, meaning, I am a user first. When said software is open source, it allows me to hack on it, improve it, etc. What is imporrant is rhat if there's no perceived value for me as a user, no matter the tech, I'll most probably ignore it. On the other hand, I could learn any tech should I need it to propose more value to a software. That is why I couldn't care less about the "in Rust/Python/Haskell/Zig/..." I'm not opposed to people doing that, I'm just the kind of user that takes zero interest into it until I want to contribute to add value to the software. Let's say I'm product-first rather than tech-first.

mro_name 4y ago

While I share your sentiment, some technologies automatically come with certain features. It's the (evtl. statically) compiled versus the scripted ones. And among the scripted again is one ubiquitous and can be lean on dependencies (sh). So IMO there is certain interest in how it's built. And it may attract contributors, inspire or serve as a warning.

lijogdfljk 4y ago

I always find the language comments strange. I'm on HN, i want to see the language/tools/etc things are written in.