You guys flagged this? That is not the move of a vibrant, growing, confident community. I’m no fan of the Rust jihad myself, but this isn’t spam or hate speech or whatever.
That is a super weak move.
That is a super weak move.
If users didn't flag these, HN's front page would largely consist of meta flamebait follow-ups.
Here's the principle: curiosity withers under repetition and fries under indignation; also, meta is the crack of internet forums. Repeat+indignant+meta is definitely worth flagging.
You and I know perfectly well that some kind of tribal loyalty around loyalty on a programming language (they all suck) is an IQ test.
I’ll look the other way on Siebel committing outright fraud, and you let these idiots argue about go vs Rust without displaying any bias.
Everyone knows that Thompson invented UTF-8. And I’m smarter than Pike, who was always a pity hire.
This is in response to that post from yesterday. It's worth flagging this one, or else it's going to be an infinite loop of knee jerk reactions. We can do without these.
I think all the arguments against Go in this article are fair and I think you can write articles just as long about any programming language of your choosing. It's very strange to see the level professional programmers will stoop to if their favourite tool gets criticised.
The fanboys of programming languages are the worst part of a language community. The "why not rewrite it in Rust" and the "you're golanging it wrong" crowds only drive people away from their respective languages.
Also it's not a ,,new'' way to discourage reasoned discussions, it was already like that when you decided to join HN in 2016.
But if I would be censored, that's OK, it happened multiple times before, but I still prefer it compared to other web forums, because I deserved it.
As a Rust jihadist myself ... yeah I can't disagree with this description. Even I get sick of all the Rust chatter/evangelism on HN sometimes. I love it and it's my preferred tool, but I wouldn't mind hearing about some alternative topics at least some of the time.
(As for the article: I wrote Go for several years professionally, and what he says, well - rem acu tetigit. I know a lot of people on that former team who were converted to Rust by the experience of writing Go. And then I know others, with a natural propensity to cultishness, who just responded the way so many people are responding in this thread.)
It's one of those phrasoids which is permanently stuck in my head from Latin classes when I was a teenager, but I might've been wrong in thinking it was one of the more widely-recognised ones.
[0] 'You' is implied by the second-person verb ending on 'tetigit', 'with' is implied by the ablative case ending on 'acu' (the 'ablative of means'), while 'the' and 'a' are filled in altogether since Latin has no concept of definite/indefinite articles.