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Don't get me wrong, I'm all about new DEs. But: Cosmic has been so hyped, at this point if it delivers on a tenth of the hype it'll be incredible. What other

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about new DEs. But: Cosmic has been so hyped, at this point if it delivers on a tenth of the hype it'll be incredible. What other "in progress" foss project has had anywhere near this level of hn coverage?

silisili 3y ago
Zig? Rust and Go when they were in progress. As far as something of this scope, I'm not sure. I think many of us are excited because among full featured DE's we've been stuck with Gnome and KDE so long, it's nice to see something new.
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  Well Cosmic is written in Rust, no? I'm used to seeing plenty of Rust coverage, but this is the first time I've noticed Cosmic on HN. Honestly, I'm less interested in Cosmic itself and more interested* in seeing if Cosmic can give the toolkit it uses (Iced) a boost. * That's an obvious personal bias as I just started dabbling in Iced (to try my hand at an ATC sim) and while it's very cool (Elm inspired) the documentation is pretty much the opposite.
  - gymbeaux 3y ago
    Yes, Cosmic is written in Rust.
TwentyPosts 3y ago
Fwiw I don't remember seeing that many posts for Cosmic DE here. In fact, it's the first time it really stands out to me. Maybe I forget, could definitely be the case. Either way, looks like a cool project? I don't quite get the pitch yet, but sure, looks cool
burkaman 3y ago
I am on HN basically every day and I don't think I've ever heard of Cosmic before. Looking through search I only see 3 or 4 popular posts in the last three years. Off the top of my head I'd say Deno was a lot more hyped when it was "in progress".
- jmspring 3y ago
  The funny thing, I am on HN every day and never heard of Cosmic until today. Never heard of Deno until I talked with a company that was leveraging it for some isolated trusted compute stuff (I shake my head at JS and trusted compute, but that's where I heard about it).
antifa 3y ago
By the other comments, it looks like most people have never heard of CosmicDE and have no idea what hype you are referring to.

silisili 3y ago

Zig? Rust and Go when they were in progress. As far as something of this scope, I'm not sure. I think many of us are excited because among full featured DE's we've been stuck with Gnome and KDE so long, it's nice to see something new.

inferiorhuman 3y ago
Well Cosmic is written in Rust, no? I'm used to seeing plenty of Rust coverage, but this is the first time I've noticed Cosmic on HN. Honestly, I'm less interested in Cosmic itself and more interested* in seeing if Cosmic can give the toolkit it uses (Iced) a boost. * That's an obvious personal bias as I just started dabbling in Iced (to try my hand at an ATC sim) and while it's very cool (Elm inspired) the documentation is pretty much the opposite.
- gymbeaux 3y ago
  Yes, Cosmic is written in Rust.

TwentyPosts 3y ago

Fwiw I don't remember seeing that many posts for Cosmic DE here. In fact, it's the first time it really stands out to me. Maybe I forget, could definitely be the case. Either way, looks like a cool project? I don't quite get the pitch yet, but sure, looks cool

burkaman 3y ago

I am on HN basically every day and I don't think I've ever heard of Cosmic before. Looking through search I only see 3 or 4 popular posts in the last three years. Off the top of my head I'd say Deno was a lot more hyped when it was "in progress".

jmspring 3y ago
The funny thing, I am on HN every day and never heard of Cosmic until today. Never heard of Deno until I talked with a company that was leveraging it for some isolated trusted compute stuff (I shake my head at JS and trusted compute, but that's where I heard about it).

antifa 3y ago

By the other comments, it looks like most people have never heard of CosmicDE and have no idea what hype you are referring to.