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No idea why this is on the front page. Doesn't seem like anything special. People seem to blindly upvote anything "with Rust", and I've no idea why.
by trollied 4y ago
No idea why this is on the front page. Doesn't seem like anything special. People seem to blindly upvote anything "with Rust", and I've no idea why.
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- berkle4455 4y agoIt's also that most devs don't understand reasonable estimates on how many inserts/sec a database should be able to handle or how many requests/sec a website should be able to handle, and they upvote and wax estatic about some of the most unimpressive stats ever.
- 0xfedbee 4y agoIt’s a known tactic to get anything on HN frontpage. Just put Rust in the title, even if it’s about a food recipe.
- web3-is-a-scam 4y agoAnything with Rust or SQLite is basically instant front page.
- re-thc 4y agoAnd anything opposing it is instant downvote :p
- jrockway 4y agoNah, the WebAssembly version of Postgres got upvoted. I'm waiting for someone to transpile MySQL to PHP to see what the limits of HN upvotes are, however.
- web3-is-a-scam 4y agoSo what you're saying is I have a weekend project now...
- zhte415 4y agoThis may be a legacy of kuro5hin.
- tcfhgj 4y agoupvoted this post to make this argument
- pdimitar 4y agoAs a guy planning to use SQLite with Rust, it was interesting to me since you often don't have visibility on the performance cost when you cross the C-Rust barrier, or other FFI bridges. You have to write the code at which point it's a 70% done deal. Plus the top comment gave useful additional data. This saves time for other people looking to make an informed decision. --- People disliking Rust seem to always be on the lookout for the Boogeyman to me. And degrading the quality of HN's comment sections. :( Just look at your other replies. Seems that several people got lost on their way to 4chan and Reddit.
- trollied 4y agoI don't dislike Rust, I'm trying to understand the blind upvotes that seem to regularly happen. You don't see "with $OTHERLANGUAGE" in the majority of post titles. RE my posts, I'm old. I ask questions, I challenge things I think are wrong. I also praise. This is normal interaction, rather than blind cargo cult following.
- pdimitar 4y agoEvery community has bad apples. I've worked with hardcore Rust devs and they hate the cargo culting as well. What ticks me off is that people single out Rust and that's very visible. Go criticize C/C++ legacy baggage and you'll get a very different engagement. Say something about Python and Golang. Very different responses. At this point and to me, as a mostly indifferent side observer, people negatively overreact if Rust is praised -- and only cite a bunch of loonies that even the Rust devs and core contributors dislike. Does not seem like a fair and objective assessment to me. As techies we should be much better than that. Merit before bias and all that.
- bjornasm 4y agoHow do you know all the others are "blind cargo cult following"? Maybe is it that people that frequent Hacker News are interested in Rust, and as Rust is in the wind a lot of content is made about Rust, which again means that a lot of content is upvoted. I don't think it means its anything nefarious. A new language can get a lot of hype, a lot of hype means a lot of content. (I say this as someone who haven't done any Rust other than looking at some intro exercises a bit over a year ago).
- millerm 4y agoI clicked the link. I read the article. Understood the code. I like rust. I forgot to click upvote button. Thanks for the reminder.