Without disagreeing with your broader point, I'm happy to say that ripgrep was introduced using a title that never mentioned "Rust" (that was very much intentional on my part), and there isn't any Rust source code in the intro blog post.[1] To be fair, I did just re-skim it to make sure. There are plenty of references to Rust, but Rust had a very minor role in the blog post itself. It, of course, has a very major role in the viability of continued maintenance and feature development of ripgrep though. :-)

There will hopefully be a ripgrep-related blog post in the near future that will feature Rust quite a bit, but that will be about a library, not a tool.

[1] - https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

Fair enough. Skimming over your post, I don't feel too bad as remembering it as having significant code, since it is pretty detailed with a lot of discussion (it's a great post!), but your correction is valid.

I do encourage people in the Rust community to have the confidence to just be in Rust and let people find it out, like you did. There's good reason in the early days to wear the language on your sleeve, but there's also good reason as time wears on to project quiet confidence. Rust is, in my opinion, quite solidly there, at least relative to HN.