Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity • Hacker News Board

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by swampthinker » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:09 AM UTC

rustacean wrote: post #11

For me, A totally cs newbee, the Rust team has established a great community. I have learned a lot from the e-mentor(contribute to rust or rust lib directly with the guidelines from rust core developers). Now I’m the founder of Rustacean group in my school.

Rustacean, that's the first time of heard of that name. Absolutely fantastic

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by MichaelMoser123 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:13 AM UTC

soared wrote: post #2

> Now over 20% of Rust devs use it at work. This one jumped out at me. I'd be curious how this compares to other languages. (I know nothing about rust besides that I see it on hn all the time, impressive list though!)

I think that once upon a time as c++ was relatively new, it got a faster adoption in the corporate world. There are still very few job offerings that mention rust. I hope that will get better at some point.

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by shmerl » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:17 AM UTC

techwizrd wrote: post #16

shmerl wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a link to it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsxYAxw3JQ&t=4s

Thanks!

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by Zaak » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:18 AM UTC

lain-dono wrote: post #10

However, it is still a new programming language. As well as golang. This has its pros and cons. However, in cases where people say that some language is bad, it means that it simply does not fit their tasks. (sorry, im using google translate)

> However, in cases where people say that some language is bad, it means that it simply does not fit their tasks.

I disagree. It is possible for a language to simply be a bad language. Intercal is intentionally so. I will refrain from mentioning unintentionally bad languages in order to avoid a flame war.

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by ben-schaaf » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:29 AM UTC

lain-dono wrote: post #10

However, it is still a new programming language. As well as golang. This has its pros and cons. However, in cases where people say that some language is bad, it means that it simply does not fit their tasks. (sorry, im using google translate)

I don't know, I doubt anyone would call malbogue a good language. I mean, it achieves its design goals, but that doesn't make it good.

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by davidad_ » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:50 AM UTC

nickpsecurity wrote: post #19

DiabloD3 wrote: post #4

Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.

People on Lobste.rs are often addressed as Crustaceans and Rust folks as Rustaceans. I always remember both when I hear one.

As a bonus, .rs is the filename extension for Rust source (as well as the TLD of Lobste.rs)

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by systems » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:51 AM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #4

Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.

Ada users are called ... Ada users are never called :/

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by harry8 » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:52 AM UTC

You have to take all this with a mountain of salt. Boosterism is the norm in our space, sadly. If one devotes time to learning a technology it is personally advantageous if that technology takes off. Hence you get this kind of "My programming language and community are already wonderfully perfect and kick more goals than there are nets to kick into" stuff. And the worse, yet related utter rubbish we see all the time. "C is a virus", "Perl is line noise", "failure to use JVM style garbage collection is idiotic and unsafe". etc etc. You can swap out those languages and swap in any others you like. It's pervasive and that is a shame.

This is the same kind of thing even if less stomach turning than the negative crud. It's pretty crappy and doesn't really belong here any more than Oracle and IBM global services adverts do. It is not anything like objective and in any sensible assessment of Rust should be roundly ignored. Just like big consulting firm whitepaper "Are you enterprise ready!?!?!"

All the very best to Rust hackers, may you achieve your technical goals in both your design and implementations and have loads of fun on the way!

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by Frondo » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 5:05 AM UTC

dudeonthenet wrote: post #6

Rustaceans? Would recruiting agencies go for that in job ads? "Are you a top rustacean and looking for a challenge in AI and Big Data and want to work in an international team with young and dynamic rustaceans? "

Fun hip dev shops can call them Rustaceans.

Stodgy old conservative shops can call them Rust developers.

Everybody is understood, everybody wins!

Re: Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity

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Post by sidlls » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 5:07 AM UTC

harry8 wrote: post #28

You have to take all this with a mountain of salt. Boosterism is the norm in our space, sadly. If one devotes time to learning a technology it is personally advantageous if that technology takes off. Hence you get this kind of "My programming language and community are already wonderfully perfect and kick more goals than there are nets to kick into" stuff. And the worse, yet related utter rubbish we see all the time.…

It's what happens when people identify intellectual ability (or other positive attribute) with tool choice, and also wish to identify themselves as having that attribute.