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Comment by rurounijones | Hacker News Reader

Well I guess I am going to have to be that guy:

Does EVERY new feature released by github require an HN announcement? I mean I can see reasons for the big, useful stuff used by many people, but this is such a non-event I am having trouble understanding why it is here.

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It's lighthearted fun. Some guy at Github said, what the hell. And within a day of a new language being announced[1], it's already "supported" by github. Is this any kind of a big deal? no. But I know I cracked a smile.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272634

EDIT: was not aware that the "Tom" in TOML is the CEO of github. So nevermind.

<jealousy> And now whenever we see a config file that looks like that style (which is common) it'll be considered TOML. Oh, the spoils of nerd fame ;) </jealousy>

I'll second this. My friend made a pretty cool and useful language (moonscript.org) and after it got popular he submitted a pull request for syntax highlighting. It took months and lots of people commenting for it to get merged in. So to see this BS front-paged grinds my gears a bit.

Did you flag it? This site is a democracy (of sorts) so what does well is what everyone collectively votes for. If enough people flag items they think are offtopic and items disappear, that's also democratic.

This is not "released by GitHub". This is just a guy (who happens to have founded GitHub) who wrote something cool.

That's exactly what HN is (supposed to) be about.

The "Wrote something cool" is all well and good and I agree that is the kind of thing that HN is about.

However that story was already covered yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272634

This story is nothing more than "Hey, Github now supports syntax highlighting of the brand-new nobody-is-really-using-yet config format written by its founder which was mentioned yesterday" which seems like a non-event not worthy of taking up space.

It's just someone posting it and if people like it, they upvote it. You seem to be part of the minority..

Without commenting on the merit of this story I'd like to point out that 25 (or 500) upvotes does not mean that the majority of people like the story or that the people who do not like the story are in the minority. Unlike comments there are no downvotes for submissions.

But one can flag a submission if need be.

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