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Why is this interesting?
by Maro 14y ago
Why is this interesting?
- sophacles 14y agoWhy is this comment necessary? You don't have to read code or links if you don't want to. This is even worse than the "how is this topic relevant to hacker news" style comment. I found it interesting because it is a nice example of real, non-toy, code in rust. I presume others find it interesting because it is a good progress mark of rust.
- perishabledave 14y agoThe comment could be out of a genuine desire to understand what makes the code interesting. The brevity makes it a bit ambiguous.
- coldtea 14y agoNo, the comment seems like the author being a jackass. A genuine desire to understand would have used different questions altogether.
- zerr 14y agoIt is actually a pretty neutral and dry comment, which is not necessary a "jackassness". Also, this is not a one-to-one conversation, other people read these threads as well. So some of them, which are genuinely interested, could benefit from detailed answers.
- coldtea 14y ago>It is actually a pretty neutral and dry comment, which is not necessary a "jackassness". Not really convinced. Even something like "In what ways is this interesting? Can you explain?" would be way more neutral than the current one. If he was perplexed by something on the article he would ask more specific questions. As it stands, it's identical to tons of other dismissive comments that follow every announcement. It wants to imply the author is "too technical" for this, e.g "hmm, a yet another 3D engine just done on some new language this time? who cares" or "why is this on top of HN".
- primitur 14y agoBecause its an interesting example of the status of the Rust language, which some of us may or may not be familiar with, and with such a starting point as a quake3 renderer, newcomers to Rust may indeed be encouraged to explore the features of the language.
- Maro 14y agoThanks!