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

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171 points g0xA52A2A | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 05:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | 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. diego_moita ◴[17 Oct 24 12:33 UTC] No.41869045[source]▶
I take it as tribalism.

Rust culture is a lot like socialism, libertarians, fundamentalist religions, vegans, etc. They see themselves apart from the "mainstream", as rebels, revolutionaries, etc.

In their beginning, Java and Python were like that, too. Lua, Haskell and Kotlin also do the same. Golang is more discrete.

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2. monocasa ◴[17 Oct 24 13:01 UTC] No.41869269[source]▶
I feel like "written in Go" is the at least the second most likely language to be pimped in an hn title.