It's actually nice to see activity on the LtU front page. The two other posts I would assign to the same category as the submitted one would be xkcd: Functional

It's actually nice to see activity on the LtU front page. The two other posts I would assign to the same category as the submitted one would be xkcd: Functional [0] and The Three Laws of Programming Language Design [1] posts. They both had good discussion, which is where a lot of value at LtU comes from. I even wrote my own little script to make the expanded, threaded list of comments collapsible to consume them more to my liking. To be fair, I was being unjustly negative because of my worry about how Microsoft treats such projects. Admittedly, after sleeping on it, I don't see it to be as big as a deal as I did last night. It'll be interesting to see what Microsoft produces, and we'll still have the open and approachable Rust regardless. I find Charles reply to your comment about the HN thread odd though. He says > It's interesting, though not unexpected, that folks are already comparing this language to D, Rust, and Go which also aim for a nirvana (safe, productive, fast, open) without really having many of the details required to make intelligent comparisons (on reddit, somebody made a post asserting this language is MS's _answer_ to D and Rust... WTF?). Why is this interesting or unexpected? Joe Duffy's blog post mentions D and Rust explicitly. That we don't have "many of the details required to make intelligent comparisons" was my issue with it being hand wavy. There are already conspiracy themed posts about this being because Microsoft wants to lock down patents on these parts of the language [2]. Post the details, and we'll likely see "intelligent comparisons" being made on HN and Reddit. The post is spreading on Reddit as well, if you would like to see others feelings on the matter [3]. [0] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4816 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4816 [1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4754 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4754 [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1tve0m/a_glimpse_into_a_new_general_purpose_programming/cebvl72 http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1tve0m/a_glimpse_into_... [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/duplicates/1tvic1/the_microsoft_response_to_d_and_rust_m/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/duplicates/1tvic1/the_mi...