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OpenVMM – A New VMM for Windows and Linux, Written in Rust

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171 points g0xA52A2A | 5 comments | 17 Oct 24 05:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.896s | source
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low_tech_love ◴[17 Oct 24 09:40 UTC] No.41867927[source]▶
I find it interesting that every single piece of software that was ever written in Rust always mentions that very proudly in its title. It's not something I see often with other programming languages (most software is just software and doesn't necessarily advertise the language it was built with). I do not know anything about Rust, so I'm just curious, does this confer a kind of underlying trustworthiness or quality to the application?
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1. Y_Y ◴[17 Oct 24 09:56 UTC] No.41868016[source]▶
Do you not remember ten years ago when this was a thing with Python? It's an effective evangelism tactic. Super annoying, but it "works" in some sense. I consider it like "YouTube face", I tolerate it because even good projects or creators have to play the game to some extent or get washed away in the crapflood.
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2. Klonoar ◴[17 Oct 24 11:19 UTC] No.41868494[source]▶
HN in particular has a long history of this kind of thing, e.g “Written in Ruby”.

(Or if you’ve been around super long, “written in Lisp”.)

3. tcfhgj ◴[17 Oct 24 11:25 UTC] No.41868553[source]▶
I doubt that a GitHub README is used for language evangelism. If at all, it's project promotion.

Also, I don't find it annoying, but helpful, because I care - amongst other things - about the language of open source software projects.

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4. Y_Y ◴[17 Oct 24 11:41 UTC] No.41868667[source]▶
> I doubt that a GitHub README is used for language evangelism.

Perhaps you should reconsider this. OpenVMM split up its docs and there isn't much in the actual README, but a few seconds investigation led me to https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm/blob/main/Guide/src/dev... , for example.

> Also, I don't find it annoying, but helpful, because I care - amongst other things - about the language of open source software projects.

Come on, this is not even a good strawman. It's very easy to find out the language of you want to know, and it's possible to inform without evangelism.

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5. tcfhgj ◴[17 Oct 24 14:46 UTC] No.41870171{3}[source]▶
> OpenVMM split up its docs and there isn't much in the actual README, but a few seconds investigation led me to https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm/blob/main/Guide/src/dev... , for example.

this is a reason to reconsider my statement why?

> Come on, this is not even a good strawman.

It's not a straw man at all. It's my opinion.

> It's very easy to find out the language of you want to know, and it's possible to inform without evangelism.

Indeed, but nothing makes it more straight forward than the language being mentioned in the HN News title