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Well, yeah, it does say a lot about both Hacker News and "Rust the... community, or whatever". But one of the cool (IMHO), but possibly unexciting, things abou
by veidr 3y ago
Well, yeah, it does say a lot about both Hacker News and "Rust the... community, or whatever".
But one of the cool (IMHO), but possibly unexciting, things about Rust the programming language, is that it comes out with a highly regular stream of small, predictable updates.
The last release, Rust 1.69 only got 3 comments[1] here. The release before that, 1 comment[2].
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641006
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35081797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35081797
- JdeBP 3y agoYes, my point precisely. This is a long standing thing. With other programming languages, runtime library, compiler, and language changes actually are exciting. There's much discussion on Hacker News about GCC and Modula-2, or a distributed C++ compiler, for example. A language change that changes what happens when the allocator runs out of memory to allocate was a hugely interesting thing for C++. But in the very thing that you point to, no-one even remarks on it. Maybe all Hacker News threads on Rust need a regular "Isn't there a programming language around here somewhere?" nudge. (-:
- notmypenguin 3y agoThat might be a reflection (no pun intended) of non-code reality being proportionally larger than the coding realities across our industry. Stuff that used to work semi ok with a handful of nerds becomes unwieldy when saddled with non tech mgmt types.