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No surprise here, Rust users are physically incapable of going 10 seconds without mentioning that they use Rust.
by bakugo 4y ago
No surprise here, Rust users are physically incapable of going 10 seconds without mentioning that they use Rust.
- lowbloodsugar 4y agoApparently not just Rust users but people who want to complain about it. Well done for keeping up Rusts numbers.
- cercatrova 4y agoI've seen more complaining about Rust and its users on HN than I've actually seen Rust users.
- pdimitar 4y agoPeople who get stuff done and are successfully using a technology rarely go around advocating for it. Point being, Rust might be even more popular than what this post suggests. But then again that could go for any other language. Apart from Rust I also work with Elixir a lot and I know that most of its devs are not at all vocal; they're too busy being successful and don't need external validation -- they know the benefits of the tech and are using it to their full advantage. I know that I do that, and I know others. Both with Elixir and Rust.
- necovek 4y agoYou mentioned Elixir (in a thread about Rust) and Rust a fair number of times to consider yourself "not at all vocal", so perhaps you are not a case in your point :)
- pdimitar 4y agoThe fact that I am mentioning the languages every now and then is not the same thing as constantly advocating for them. Nuance, please. There is not only the 0% and the 100%.
- necovek 4y agoI did not mean to offend, but simply highlight the nuanced contradiction in your comment for a good natured laugh on it. I haven't brought a single language up, and yet I'll admit to sometimes selling the benefits of one: it's only natural. It's ok that you are vocal about them from time to time, but claiming how you are silent about that is simply untrue: you could have stopped after the first sentence, or not brought Elixir into the discussion at the very least.
- smt88 4y agoI don't use Rust or make pro-Rust comments, but the pro-Rust comments don't bother me at all. They're respectful and substantive. The anti-Rust comments, like yours, are irritating, off-topic, and not adding anything to the discussion. If you want to start a language flamewar, there are better places to do it.
- woojoo666 4y agoI think the point is that many HN posts mention "I made X in Rust", whereas similar projects using Go or Javascript don't mention the language in the post title. So it does seem like Rust users tend to like vocalizing it. I also think this study is slightly biased towards new and hip languages. For example, less people are going to vocalize that their new web app is made with Javascript, because that's already the assumption. But Elixir will almost certainly be mentioned
- adamdusty 4y agoThe pro rust comments on rust posts are great. The pro rust comments on every other post about any other language are not as great.
- ndiddy 4y agoMy favorite part is when it's a closed-source program so the language it's written in is barely relevant to its users
- pdimitar 4y agoAny such Rust examples?
- cercatrova 4y agoDiscord: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227339 It's hard to say for most because, well, it's closed source. Unless they talk about it publicly like Discord, we won't know.
- pdimitar 4y agoDiscord is a commercial product that makes quite a lot of money though. Hardly a good example. Had it been something like `ripgrep` -- which is open but yeah imagine it wasn't -- then I'd immediately agree with you. And now I'm confused what point you're trying to make? I mean, commercial products written in many languages are closed source and I don't feel that reflects negatively on any of them.
- cercatrova 4y agoI'm not sure what point you're trying to make actually. You asked (as I understood it) for any Rust examples of closed source programs, for which I provided Discord. Now you're talking about how closed source does or does not "reflects negatively on any of them" which I never said anything about at all.
- pdimitar 4y agoAh, I was going to the root of your comment so assumed that you're posting it in support of the ridiculous claim that Rust users can't shut up about it. Sorry if it's a wrong assumption then.
- anotherevan 4y agoI compile my Rust programs on Arch Linux.
- necovek 4y agoI am disappointed you haven't moved to NixOS yet. In all seriousness, I like reading about them all, because they do tend to move the needle in the right direction.