It does get tiresome. Is it deliberate, or are random people just trying to get some filler for their CVs?
Both. The community mostly does the former which is done on purpose and is their way of marketing the language for the best exposure and releases are announced simultaneously across all social media platforms. On HN, once it's appears in new, they all race to upvote it to the top.
The later appears to be applicable for its users who post blogposts like this one to be potentially used in interviews for jobs in Rust.
But then again it appears that the Rust community has hired a town crier to blast their trumpet about all things Rust almost every day right in your face. That is the most aggressive form of marketing I have ever seen for a programming language.
Or maybe there's something to this language that justifies the hype or It's a plain conspiracy, we'll never know :D
In the meantime I'm using Rust for some personal projects and I'm having way more fun than I ever had with C++. Even procedural macros are a ton of fun to write compared to the template hell I'd face in C++ (although I'm eager to spend some time with concepts).
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Yeah the Rust hype machine is a bit zealous, but I don't think it's entirely unfounded. Rust genuinely solves (or tries way better to that past langs) many problems that plague programmers and computer systems.
I myself have barely used it and yet despite the steep learning curve (boy is it steep) I already enjoy it way more than C++ (let alone java, ick), and I'm sure it'll be more fun once I grok ownership.
Go is more fun though ;)
That’s the only relevant point I ever saw mentioned, others being already addressed by a lot of languages, for example F# and C#.
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