Re:Stop Whining about Rust Hype – A Pro-Rust Rant
by apd_ on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:32PM
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If you're not into selfies, you may ignore the fact that your smartphone has a front facing camera. It may not be for you, but other people do use it.
HN is a tech community, which means there're many programmers here. Some people may use X and also contribute to X, or at least want to dig into the source code.
For example, since I'm a Rust programmer and not an R programmer, I'm more interested in "A fast query engine written in Rust" than "A fast query engine written in R". There're benefits of using a program written in a language you're familiar with. One of them is when you find a bug you can dig into the source code, post an issue which point out which code might cause the bug, better yet post a PR. Instead of "Please help, X failed to do Y."
HN is a tech community, which means there're many programmers here. Some people may use X and also contribute to X, or at least want to dig into the source code.
For example, since I'm a Rust programmer and not an R programmer, I'm more interested in "A fast query engine written in Rust" than "A fast query engine written in R". There're benefits of using a program written in a language you're familiar with. One of them is when you find a bug you can dig into the source code, post an issue which point out which code might cause the bug, better yet post a PR. Instead of "Please help, X failed to do Y."