[mstratman]

Any time the first line of a project description reads "This is NewTool, written in <language>" it's an immediate red flag that makes it hard for me to continue reading.

Obviously it doesn't necessarily mean the project has no merits, but language choice is one of the less relevant details and it signals that the author wanted to make a toy in a language new to them. Good for them, but most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care.

If the project has merits, and this one might, it should talk about them in the intro.

[crispinb]

> most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care

Much of the time, HN readers however will. There's the odd software developer hanging about here, some of whom are interested in programming languages, or so I believe.

[perspective1]

Rust isn't new to Turner (the author), he was one the Rust Language team at Mozilla.

[SparkyMcUnicorn]

Agree mostly, but there are certain languages that I give it a pass for given the context. A good shell written in Rust is intriguing.

I don't think I want the fad to go away, because it can even help me know what to steer clear of. e.g. Introducing a new shell written in JS!).