Hard to ignore it when it's always in your face:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331549

I don't mind languages getting hyped but seeing posts every week on the front page of HN about an unstable esoteric language with 0 adoption - yes, it's getting tiring.

Maybe you should appeal to the community and tell people to stop upvoting it, and explain why it’s wrong for them to think Zig is interesting.

How come it's always accounts made a few days ago which seem too have this problem with other people's interests

Literally from the thread I shared:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337381 (posted from a 12-year-old account)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33333904 (posted from a 2-year-old account)

10241024 is without a doubt our friendly neighbor troll https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/9aed922a6210e57243af8be8d10...

simplotek is most probably a legitimate user annoyed by Zig news. I don't agree with their point, for what it's worth, but at least it's an opinion shared earnestly, unlike the troll.

> Instead of being petulant about it, you could ignore it and move o

Not wanting to see gratuitous self-promoting spam degrading the signal/noise ratio of an otherwise interesting discussion is hardly petulance. Replace any Zig reference shoe-horned into this discussion with, say, Java, and see if you have any point.