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You're gonna love it or hate it, no in between?

Context:

> Marmite is a sticky, dark brown paste with a distinctive, salty, powerful flavour and heady aroma. This distinctive taste is represented in the marketing slogan: "Love it or hate it." Such is its prominence in British popular culture that Marmite is often used as a metaphor for something that is an acquired taste or polarises opinion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite

If you hate Marmite, try putting it on cheddar

People hates it because everyone tries to use as ot was Nutella. Used in the right way, butter + marmite on a toast is awesome.

I have to google the definition of the marmite word in English because in my first language it means something like cauldron or pot.

Definitely a faux-ami.

It comes in a little black (glass) pot - maybe that's where the name comes from

I also use it in cooking, add a spoonful to a soup or a stew and it really adds some great umami flavor. Marmite roasted potatoes are delicious, too.

I actually was just having breakfast with a Marmite toast, trying to come with a name for MARkdown related project.

Never thought about how the name would trigger people haha, I love Marmite BTW.

The fact people still add "written in Rust" to HN submissions is almost as funny as how effective it is, which itself is almost as funny as the fact that people like me can't stop commenting on it.

I hope it goes full circle into "btw I use arch" levels of parody

Well, it was 90% written on Arch :(

Gentoo is faster.

Indeed. The blazingly fast speeds of compiling all of the elements that make up arch from scratch (just to say "I use Gentoo"), over that of just using the iso always amazes me.

Only a few years more of my life lost to check all of the code of Linux and ensure I know what is running. I'm not bitter about and looking for better solutions to that at all.

Perhaps it was more parody? Since becoming vegan my mind more clear and in touch with the universe. You should try it too!

I first posted without mentioning "marmite" neither "Rust", then a friend reminded me that both things would engage. People are very triggered by those words.

You forgot the "blazing fast" part; that drives them bonkers LOL!

Blazing Fast New Project Written in Rust (it's a SSG btw)

And it worked. Congrats for reaching Front Page, Bruno!

As someone who both loves marmite and is currently learning Rust I was unable to resist clicking.

> Go programmers are very triggered by those words.

FTFY

Huh? Why would that be the case?

People post "Something Written in Go" all the time and no-one complains about the title, every rust post that includes that gets complaints.

Well that's sadly true, I am hopeful they'll grow up one day but who knows, there are people on HN who love their prejudice as much as they love their kids, it seems.

rust is just a good language to use and the ecosystem is growing every month.

For me it means I can fork the repo and start hacking on the code immediately, and it will have reasonable quality. With C++/Python and even Node I often find myself wasting half a day just getting it to build.

Yep. If it's a Python project, it's about a 60% chance it won't run on the first try after a fresh clone.

When I see a CLI tool written in Rust or Go, it usually just works out of the box without having to mess around with godawful pip environments or conda.

I say this as someone who cut their teeth on and loves Python for a thousand reasons, I have to agree. Python projects are abysmal. Rye and UV are promising (and I am very excited about them), but they aren't quite ready yet.

"Written in Rust" carries with it significant promises that only Go also has. (Go has a lot of the same promises, for having good tooling and the same mostly-statically-compiled philosophy.)

"Written in Rust" tells me a project is easy to install and easy to hack on. I am far less interested in using non-Rust projects, and I am definitely disinterested in making code contributions to non-Rust projects.

Case in point: It took me much longer to write this comment than it took to install and use marmite.

This. It's basically about average quality. It's the old Python Paradox all over again. Javascript / Typescript is the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. Python / C++ is higher than that. And Rust is at the top.

> people like me can't stop commenting on it

Yeah this loop will go on with this comment, it seems.

I just notice that someone (admins) edited and removed the `written in Rust` part of my post.

Not fair.. other posts have `written in Python` on it.

Why was that?

Nice tool. But marmite is a trademark, you may need to change it if Marmite claims infringement.

Unless OP branches out into developing tasty spreads I don’t think there can be a trademark dispute

Tasty marmite would be a distinct product space free of trademark.

Aren't trademarks attached to specific goods and services? In other words the trademark protecting the yeasty food spread based does not prevent someone from using the word for something like a record label: https://www.marmiterec.com or a static site generator.

You will find out in court

That's right, but beware the relatively recent* legal innovation of trademark dilution: https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/trademark-dilution-intended.... This muddies the water.

*The US federal version of dilution law came into effect in the 1990s.

'Marmite' has been a word in the French dictionary for centuries though (French word for 'pot').

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