For one, this post is more than "I got a job"; there's a lot of words spilled about the evolution of web application platforms.

For another, I've been posting here for ten years. https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders has me at #19. (I'm a fan of patio11's "this is basically an odometer" take on that, of course.) My "I'm leaving Mozilla" post got a lot of attention too, as well as most of my previous job change posts. I know I like hearing about what HN members are up to, and I guess other people do too.

Steve's a very active member of the Rust community and very active on HN as well.

He was one of Mozilla's big rust advocates, and his post about leaving Mozilla was also big on Hacker News. At least, thats how I know who he is.

CF is doing a ton of cutting edge work in the WA work. Rust is a language that is developing first class support for WA. Solomon Hykes, who completely revolutionized serverside with Docker, is saying WA is the next big revolution. This is literally the building ground 0, the powder keg, and it's all pointing to CF getting the jump over all other web companies with WA.