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> Are you new here? I'm sure that next week it'll go back to the usual threads about Rust or Haskell, or someone will start a retro fad around Algol-68 or something.

I just do not get how the disconnected list of events you provided justify the promotion of Kotlin we have seen this week. But hey, you might even be on the payroll.

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The list of events seem pretty connected.

I doubt it's being paid promoted, but I don't think your cynicism is unreasonable. It is pretty obvious that the big tech companies maintain a presence on this board and attempt influence through human and automated measures.

Yeah. Those nefarious Elm and Nim cartels, using Russian hackers to push their #fakenews to the top of HN every other week.

(I feel like I'm living through a bad acid trip)

Eh, neither Nim nor Elm are backed by huge companies. You'll want to look at Rust and Swift for that. ;)

Seriously though, speaking as a contributor to Nim, I can confidently say no-one in the Nim community organizes massive multi-post promotion campaigns like this. The only submissions that come from the core developers are the announcements for new language versions, and (unfortunately) none of the community members seem particularly inclined to regularly submit links to libraries/blog posts either.

I'm sure Elm developers do the same thing - it's the only way for such projects to actually gain recognition among other communities.

> You'll want to look at Rust and Swift for that. ;)

Is Mozilla a "huge company"?

Any community of sufficient size and influence invariably becomes an astroturf target.

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