Author here. I blog about Rust as a hobby (and have been doing so since 2015 on my personal blog), and LogRocket is so nice to pay me to have my content hosted on their blog. And yes, their product is only tangentially related (if you use Rust on the frontend with WASM).
This is really cool, actually. And the reason I think it's actually good to be high on HN, not just the 'ooooh rust, upvote derp!' is this:
This is a point release that they don't need to do - on the grounds that it's not a bad time to do one, but it should help in the future to do point releases quickly if there is a real need to (security, etc).
There's a commitment in the rust team to making life really really good for developers, and I appreciate that a lot.
Same here. I'd love to start seeing it appear in various projects on HN, so we can have the discussion of pros and cons as we have had for the last 18 months on Rust and Go.
The Rust developers have done a fabulous job of posting here and answering questions in detail, and I hope the Kotlin guys at JetBrains will eventually start doing the same thing.
For any open source project, you are marketing as much towards potential developers as you are end-users. Note that their home page doesn't say "Rust" at all. However, on Hacker News, there are potential contributors, and so giving them a bit of information about the project can be useful.
Rust is beginning to be evaluated by large tech companies for production use (I can attest). When companies start using it and blogging about it, other companies will catch on and do the same. My money is on this number rising. Rust is something truly special, and I'd be shocked for it not to gain widespread usage.
Is Rust that important that you have to place "built in Rust" in the title? Is this like a cult following that we only bet on traffic and interest coming from other evangelists where Rust is the only feature that matter?
4 months ago: " Meilisearch, open-source alternative to Algolia in Rust lands a $15M Series A"
It's not the first time I see, there are at least 2-3 daily submissions reaching the FP in this manner so I'm curious: "built in Rust" = marketing these days?
I'm hearing an awful lot about Rust on HN, even though afaict it still does't have a basic http package yet, limiting the main types of apps I would build with it. Maybe I'm in the minority, but perhaps we can slow down on Rust news until it's a little closer to usable?
Seems like I should make a Rust article just for it to soar to HN's frontpage, just for developer marketing of my product that is unrelated to Rust.
Bravo.
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