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This is interesting and clearly a true claim, but anecdotally I feel like the combination of 1) lands on HN homepage and 2) includes "written in" in the title i
by ericyd 2y ago
This is interesting and clearly a true claim, but anecdotally I feel like the combination of 1) lands on HN homepage and 2) includes "written in" in the title is heavily biased towards Rust. I don't know how to search for those two qualifiers to prove or disapprove my feelings though.
- keybored 2y agoI did a simpler count: the number of comments in this thread that either (without also talking about the content of the submission) (1) only talk about Rust (2) only talk about programming languages (3) talk about how programming language choice impacts the project or the quality of the software (or how it might not be a guarantee of those things) (4) talk about how a VMM being written in Rust/not being written in Rust is good (this last one is the closest to the submission topic but still not about the submission topic). 45/64.
- estebank 2y agoIt wasn't until this comment that made me realize that using "written in Rust" as rage click bait is such a "useful" strategy here, because it will inevitably attract plenty of comments about the mentioning of the language. Ironically, the people complaining end up increasing the post's rank by engaging more.
- steveklabnik 2y agoIt can harm it too; if a thread here has more comments than upvotes, it's heavily penalized by the algorithm. I have seen good stories sometimes get buried because two early commentors get into a fight, before there's enough time to gain more upvotes.
- low_tech_love 2y agoI didn’t mean it as a complaint (that’d be meaningless, it doesn’t hurt me in any way) but merely as an interesting pattern I noticed. I’m happy that it generated interest, even though I got very little to no upvotes at the end!
- keybored 2y agoIt got ratioed in other words. In other words: generated more heat than light.
- tcfhgj 2y agois this a problem?