Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by worksonmine | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

worksonmine

This comment is so common here I decided to do a quick search here on HN:

- written in go: 1331 results

- written in rust: 1043 results

- written in python: 763 results

- written in javascript: 525 results

Not intended to be scientific and there are false positives but you get my point. Personally I appreciate not having to visit the repository to find out. A tool being written in a language I know and enjoy is a benefit.

View on HN

> A tool being written in a language I know and enjoy is a benefit.

Sincere question: why? I 100% agree about libraries, but why does the implementation language of an application matter to you?

I enjoy tinkering and making my life unnecessarily difficult is a hobby. To give you an example i use:

- dwm as window manager

- neomutt for email

- newsboat for feeds

- notifications with inotifywait/watch and notify-send

- vim keybindings EVERYWHERE

Because of this the I've become very reliant on the ability to tweak and customize the tools I use. I know I'm a minority but I'm so deep down the rabbit hole I can never go back.

On neomutt, use a Maildir config and use isync (mbsync) and msmtp. It's godly fast. No IMAP(S) related hangs, no needs to be online 24h, no slowdown over GUI's. Write your mails and queue them, send them later.

I am, and the sync is a cronjob triggering inotifywait watching the directories I'm interested in. Only thing I wish I had is less hassle unlocking the password file but I'll get there.

Well, if the source is available you can do what you want with it.

I don't know a thing about Ruby and for awhile really felt out of it when stuff was being written in it a lot more.

Yup, a lot of false positives without quotes. Searching with quotes on Story gives the following. (Search is case insensitive.)

  "written|built in Rust"           832 (790|42)
  "written|built in Go"             809 (792|17)
  "written|built in Python":        390 (364|26)
  "written|built in Javascript/JS"  269 (220|14) / (32|3)
  "written|built in Java"           107 (101|6)
  "written|built in TypeScript"      66 (61|5)
  "written|built in C#"              41 (38|3)
  "written|built in Stone"           10 (10|0)

edited to include both "written in" and "built in".

Replying to my own post for posterity because edits are closed and I missed the obvious Go/Golang. This pushes Go to the top winning it a "major award".

  "written|built in Go/Golang"      918 (792|17) / (102|7)
  "written|built in Rust"           832 (790|42)
  "written|built in Python":        390 (364|26)
  "written|built in Javascript/JS"  269 (220|14) / (32|3)
  "written|built in Java"           107 (101|6)
  "written|built in TypeScript"      66 (61|5)
  "written|built in C#"              41 (38|3)
  "written|built in Stone"           10 (10|0)

One other item I noticed is on average "written in Rust" has about 3 times the number of comments as "written in Go/Golang" for the more popular posts. Clearly, Rust gets a major award too.

To be fair to Rust, Go evangelists can be just as annoying. I say this as a Go evangelist :)

According to the comment you replied to, you're statistically more annoying.

I assumed the "annoying" part comes from telling other people to rewrite stuff in ${LANG}. While a number of projects "writte in ${LANG}" could correlate with the annoyingness as defined above, in my experience Go evangelists are more aware that their language is not end-all be-all, but is actually useful in a certain niche of IO-heavy applications, so evangelism is much less pronounced.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com