> most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care
Much of the time, HN readers however will. There's the odd software developer hanging about here, some of whom are interested in programming languages, or so I believe.
Re:Introducing nushell
by perspective1 on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:36PM
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Rust isn't new to Turner (the author), he was one the Rust Language team at Mozilla.
Re:Introducing nushell
by SparkyMcUnicorn on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:41PM
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Agree mostly, but there are certain languages that I give it a pass for given the context. A good shell written in Rust is intriguing.
I don't think I want the fad to go away, because it can even help me know what to steer clear of. e.g. Introducing a new shell written in JS!).
Obviously it doesn't necessarily mean the project has no merits, but language choice is one of the less relevant details and it signals that the author wanted to make a toy in a language new to them. Good for them, but most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care.
If the project has merits, and this one might, it should talk about them in the intro.