1. I thought "Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew" covered it pretty well.
2. It's a personal project.
3. It's explicitly declared as alpha software.
2. It's a personal project.
3. It's explicitly declared as alpha software.
Doesn’t tell me how it differs. What makes this next generation? Just the programming language?
If it’s just a for fun personal project that no one else is supposed to use, I’m not sure why it’s on HN.
It's a cool piece of alpha-quality software. It may or may not be meant to be used, that's beside the point. As I see it HN isn't a platform for software recommendations, it's for discussing interesting geeky things. Which this definitely is, even if it was completely unusable today.
Not everything on HN has to come with a dissection and explanatory note - that's kind of the point of curiosity.
If it’s just a for fun personal project that no one else is supposed to use, I’m not sure why it’s on HN.
Those are totally fine on HN too.