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Comment by sittingnut | Hacker News Reader

another pointless rust hype post in hn.

There's a lot of enthusiasm around Rust on HN (I share a great deal of it) and it's probably a bit excessive at times, but here it's about a safety issue with Rust which is not exactly good publicity.

You can't blame most of the users here upvoting all Rust related posts as a way of accepting the Rust propaganda, especially upvoting every tiny minor release.

Even as a user of Rust, I won't be surprised to see the responses here expressing their fatigue of constant news and blogposts about the Rust parade banging their pots and pans every day on HN.

I upvote minor Rust releases when I like something in the blog post/release notes, certainly not just because it is Rust. Maybe other people do the same.

Maybe Rust fans could set up a mailing list instead of polluting the HN submission mechanism?

There is no other language that I'm aware of that does this and 'what if everybody did this?' is usually a very good indicator of whether or not a certain behavior is acceptable or not.

Consider: Rust fatigue is going to harm Rust adoption, not help it, publish your major releases widely, keep point releases of social media such as HN. The same thing happened to Perl with its zealotry, and it never recovered.

I don't want to argue or get downvoted by the Rust fans, just let me share my impressions , we see a lof of submission on the fitst base that are fo form "X made in rust". If X is a kernel or some critical library is fine that you emphasize rust but in the other cases X should be upvoted on it's merits not the fact somebody is learning Rust and poorly re-implements X . Would you like to see the same X this time in Y? Do you want to see every point release of other languages? any point release of some framework? any My first Hello World in X ?

I think new releases (not point releases ) are fine and personally i am intereseted to see what's up with Firefox and Rust - I see the new Firefox releases but nothing int he artciles mention the Rust progress. Btw I do not downvote or flag any submissions, if the community upvotes them then I have to accept it even if I disagree.

I upvote anything I find interesting. I imagine the same is true for everyone, though with varying definitions of interesting.

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