It's not only about echo-chambers. Rust is an emerging language, it's enthusiasts feel compelled to promote it to help it grow faster. Go is already well established and it's users likely feel that this language will be fine without their advocacy and more likely to stay silent. Go generated much more excitement on HN when it was not yet widely used but was growing and promising.
Re:Fourteen Years of Go
by usrbinbash on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:14AM
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> it's enthusiasts feel compelled to promote it to help it grow faster.
I have no problem with language-fans promoting it and singing praise to it. I do the same with languages I happen to like.
What I do have a problem with, is evangelizing.
https://gist.github.com/graninas/22ab535d2913311e47a742c70f1...
Go is a wildly used language not sure what you mean by it's not used anyway, it's a growing and very popular language.
If you look at github stats go is still growing I don't see how you think it is its not used anymore it is the only largly used language that is still growing.
> Not in the sense that it's a bad language, but just that it's not used much anymore.
What are you talking about? Go is a popular language. Many of the successful software projects released in recent years are written in Go.
Not in the sense that it's a bad language, but just that it's not used much anymore.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
(Funnily enough, it still absolutely dwarfs Rust in Google Trends, which highlights how much HN, Reddit and such are echo-chambers)