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by StevePerkins 3314 days ago
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)

2 comments

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.