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HN goes through phases, which I rather like. This way, we get semi-in-depth coverage of topics serially instead of always uniformly dividing our attention among all interesting projects at the same time.

Nimrod's turn is coming soon. And it is well-deserving. It has already had some pre-HN-darling attention here, which is what brought it to my attention. I'm very intrigued by it. http://nimrod-lang.org/

I don't really see the problem with this. A lot of the languages you mention have been slowly and sustainably building support, even when they aren't on the front page of HN.

It makes sense. We hear about a language, take an initially skeptical approach to it, research it, try it out, and report our findings to others we think might be interested (i.e. HN).

I hope you're right.