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The fact people still add "written in Rust" to HN submissions is almost as funny as how effective it is, which itself is almost as funny as the fact that people
by apitman 2y ago
The fact people still add "written in Rust" to HN submissions is almost as funny as how effective it is, which itself is almost as funny as the fact that people like me can't stop commenting on it.
- intothemild 2y agoI hope it goes full circle into "btw I use arch" levels of parody
- rochacbruno 2y agoWell, it was 90% written on Arch :(
- djbusby 2y agoGentoo is faster.
- chaxor 2y agoIndeed. The blazingly fast speeds of compiling all of the elements that make up arch from scratch (just to say "I use Gentoo"), over that of just using the iso always amazes me. Only a few years more of my life lost to check all of the code of Linux and ensure I know what is running. I'm not bitter about and looking for better solutions to that at all.
- edoceo 2y agoPerhaps it was more parody? Since becoming vegan my mind more clear and in touch with the universe. You should try it too!
- rochacbruno 2y agoI first posted without mentioning "marmite" neither "Rust", then a friend reminded me that both things would engage. People are very triggered by those words.
- stefanos82 2y agoYou forgot the "blazing fast" part; that drives them bonkers LOL!
- uneekname 2y agoBlazing Fast New Project Written in Rust (it's a SSG btw)
- drtournier 2y agoAnd it worked. Congrats for reaching Front Page, Bruno!
- obloid 2y agoAs someone who both loves marmite and is currently learning Rust I was unable to resist clicking.
- sksxihve 2y ago> Go programmers are very triggered by those words. FTFY
- pdimitar 2y agoHuh? Why would that be the case?
- sksxihve 2y agoPeople post "Something Written in Go" all the time and no-one complains about the title, every rust post that includes that gets complaints.
- pdimitar 2y agoWell that's sadly true, I am hopeful they'll grow up one day but who knows, there are people on HN who love their prejudice as much as they love their kids, it seems.
- xyst 2y agorust is just a good language to use and the ecosystem is growing every month.
- remcob 2y agoFor me it means I can fork the repo and start hacking on the code immediately, and it will have reasonable quality. With C++/Python and even Node I often find myself wasting half a day just getting it to build.
- bschwindHN 2y agoYep. If it's a Python project, it's about a 60% chance it won't run on the first try after a fresh clone. When I see a CLI tool written in Rust or Go, it usually just works out of the box without having to mess around with godawful pip environments or conda.
- lynndotpy 2y agoI say this as someone who cut their teeth on and loves Python for a thousand reasons, I have to agree. Python projects are abysmal. Rye and UV are promising (and I am very excited about them), but they aren't quite ready yet. "Written in Rust" carries with it significant promises that only Go also has. (Go has a lot of the same promises, for having good tooling and the same mostly-statically-compiled philosophy.) "Written in Rust" tells me a project is easy to install and easy to hack on. I am far less interested in using non-Rust projects, and I am definitely disinterested in making code contributions to non-Rust projects. Case in point: It took me much longer to write this comment than it took to install and use marmite.
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoThis. It's basically about average quality. It's the old Python Paradox all over again. Javascript / Typescript is the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. Python / C++ is higher than that. And Rust is at the top.
- cttet 2y ago> people like me can't stop commenting on it Yeah this loop will go on with this comment, it seems.
- rochacbruno 2y agoI just notice that someone (admins) edited and removed the `written in Rust` part of my post. Not fair.. other posts have `written in Python` on it. Why was that?