I'm not a fan of rust at all, but I do like non-fankid posts and comments about it. It has a couple of good ideas at a cost I personally am not willing to endure, but still can learn from.

I follow and have written code in other languages like prolog, haskell, erlang and forth. I know I will never write any "real" code in any of them, and I'm not interested in the literature of those heavily involved (unlike C++ which I do follow semi-closely) but I am always interested when an article about them makes it to the HN front page. Same with rust.