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k_kalupe22

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k_kalupe22··on Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
Easy, it's for advertising reasons.

Devs, admins, enthusiasts etc. are the main target for Systems 76. Hackernews audience is very enthusiastic regarding Rust.

I think it's indeed unfair to GTK.

k_kalupe22··on Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
I appreciate your facts. But System 76 should then call it GTK based, I guess.
k_kalupe22··on Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
They do this for getting higher ranks here at hackernews. What turns me off most is that they succeed, which in turn indicates that large parts of hackernews readers are biased towards Rust. Personally, I'm pretty sick of this evangelism and hype because I fell for it some years ago and started a project with Rust. Countless problems and dark corners. I moved in time to a mature garbage collected language. There's a reason Rust has kind of succeeded only in small niches where Rust is a good fit. And not everywhere (backend services, CLIs), like it was advertised by prominent evangelists.

However, for System 76 Rust is a very good choice.

But calling it "Rust based" when it's GTK is clearly a bit bold ...