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0 pointspclmulqdq1y ago0 comments

Most of the people who use Go and Rust do it for pragmatic reasons. That doesn't influence the culture of the zealots in each community.

You should search for headlines on HN that say "written in Go" or "written in Rust" and then compare that to the number of headlines that say "written in JavaScript" or "written in Kotlin."

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nativeit1y ago

I understand the criticism that languages should be pragmatic choices they serve the strengths of the project at hand, but I guess I always found most projects boasting they’re written in a specific language or framework are doing so precisely because of the overarching interest in the language itself, which seems like a perfectly valid justification for such projects to me.

I’ve seen the more cynical hype-driven stuff, but it’s inevitably superficial on first glance, where I have seen some real curiosity and exploration in many “Project X - Built In Rust/Go/Cobol/D/Whatever” and I think they’re exploring the dynamics of the language and tooling as much as anything else.

pdimitar1y ago

Those headlines help me understand what I am getting so I seriously have no idea what argument you are trying to make.

You do seem to say Golang and/or Rust devs are zealots which, if it is indeed what you are saying, is boring and plain false.

whstl1y ago

This is not a sign or a proof of zealotry.

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