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low_tech_love ◴[] 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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Y_Y ◴[] 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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1. Klonoar ◴[] 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”.)