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I wonder how much this is due to Rust being mentioned for every utility or library: In every language except Rust: "Show HN: Here is a cool web app I made" "
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
I wonder how much this is due to Rust being mentioned for every utility or library:
In every language except Rust:
"Show HN: Here is a cool web app I made"
"Show HN: Here is a cool utility I made"
"Show HN: Here is a cool library I made"
Rust:
"Show HN: Here is a cool web app I made in Rust"
"Show HN: Here is a cool utility I made in Rust"
"Show HN: Here is a cool library I made in Rust"
- toyg 4y agoThat's just because people love the language enough to evangelize. 20 years ago it would have been: "Show Slashdot: here's my cool desktop" vs "Show Slashdot: here's my cool desktop running Linux"
- nottorp 4y agoBut is the app any good? The fact that it's written in Rust doesn't provide information about that.
- CodeSgt 4y agoI think it might be one amongst many indirect signals for code quality. It's a hard language, so the author of the program likely has at least some amount of prior experience to build off of, and to build anything truly substantial with it you have to have a deeper understanding of how the code actually works than you do with some other languages. The language does do error handling, type validation, memory safety, and null checks really well. So, it's safe to assume that the app may have fewer bugs than it's counterpart written in, e.g., C or JS. It could still be shit, of course, but I imagine the average quality of an app written in rust would be at least a little higher than thay of apps written in many other languages.
- nottorp 4y agoI was thinking more of useful and easy to use than bug free...
- CodeSgt 4y agoBug free is a part of usability. Can't use an app if it's broken. I doubt the language used has any significant impact on the inherent usefulness of the application's created with it, but I don't think anyone is making that claim to begin with.
- toyg 4y agoI mean, was the Linux desktop any good, 20 years ago...? It didn't really matter, what mattered is how cool the idea of it was (or was perceived to be).
- dublin 4y agoRidiculous. 20-ish years ago, a fair fraction of the comments on Slashdot involved Natalie Portman and hot grits... And Cowboy Neal.
- toyg 4y agoOpenBSD was also dead (Netcraft confirmed it). But it was pretty cool when Bruce Perens chipped in and Eric Raymond still looked fairly sane.