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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: 0.834s | source
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low_tech_love ◴[17 Oct 24 09:40 UTC] No.41867927[source]▶
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rascul ◴[17 Oct 24 12:33 UTC] No.41869046[source]▶
> It's not something I see often with other programming languages

Search HN stories for "written in", sort by date, and in the past couple weeks there are of course a number of "written in rust" but also c, python, ruby, go, c++, lisp, java, javascript, flutter, crystal, and react. Rust has the most instances currently but it's also common enough here with other languages.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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ericyd ◴[17 Oct 24 13:11 UTC] No.41869343[source]▶
This is interesting and clearly a true claim, but anecdotally I feel like the combination of 1) lands on HN homepage and 2) includes "written in" in the title is heavily biased towards Rust. I don't know how to search for those two qualifiers to prove or disapprove my feelings though.
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1. keybored ◴[17 Oct 24 14:23 UTC] No.41869954[source]▶
I did a simpler count: the number of comments in this thread that either (without also talking about the content of the submission) (1) only talk about Rust (2) only talk about programming languages (3) talk about how programming language choice impacts the project or the quality of the software (or how it might not be a guarantee of those things) (4) talk about how a VMM being written in Rust/not being written in Rust is good (this last one is the closest to the submission topic but still not about the submission topic).

45/64.

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2. estebank ◴[17 Oct 24 16:07 UTC] No.41870947[source]▶
It wasn't until this comment that made me realize that using "written in Rust" as rage click bait is such a "useful" strategy here, because it will inevitably attract plenty of comments about the mentioning of the language. Ironically, the people complaining end up increasing the post's rank by engaging more.
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3. steveklabnik ◴[17 Oct 24 18:54 UTC] No.41872643[source]▶
It can harm it too; if a thread here has more comments than upvotes, it's heavily penalized by the algorithm. I have seen good stories sometimes get buried because two early commentors get into a fight, before there's enough time to gain more upvotes.
4. low_tech_love ◴[18 Oct 24 05:02 UTC] No.41876494[source]▶
I didn’t mean it as a complaint (that’d be meaningless, it doesn’t hurt me in any way) but merely as an interesting pattern I noticed. I’m happy that it generated interest, even though I got very little to no upvotes at the end!
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5. keybored ◴[18 Oct 24 23:18 UTC] No.41884356{3}[source]▶
It got ratioed in other words.

In other words: generated more heat than light.