Totally agree. It's not good for HN to have this kind of repetitive language promotion on the front page. I could see if this was the first major project written in the language, which would make it noteworthy, but something like this needs to stand on its own without the upvotes of Rust fans.
This is the way it’s always been though. First it was Java, then Ruby, then Clojure, then Go, then Node, and now Rust. As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them. At first it’s a novelty, but it is often useful to see what the strengths and weaknesses are of a language to implement an existing project. Eventually, it becomes annoying to have “written in X” attached to articles and links, but soon, that will diminish.
The only time when I think it’s really appropriate for a mature language is when the language itself is a feature. But that is really rare for that to be the case.
Other languages (eg Python, Haskell and Erlang) are in the mix too, but more evenly distributed and less fad-ish.
This is just part of the hype cycle of languages. I’m not saying Rust is only a fad, but we are definitely in that part of the cycle for Rust.
> As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them.
Lately I've been thinking, it's kind of funny how the modern development mindset is so all about code reuse what with its giant dependency graphs and reliance on cross-platform frameworks; and yet the favorite sport is still rewriting perfectly good applications in the new hotness.
Because as fashion driven industry that is the only way many will get experience on language X down on their CV or favourite source code repository for head hunters.
Disagree- three of the first six most recent submissions containing "in rust" are simply educational/about the rust language in general and not showing off a project (while using "rust" as a selling point).
