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by rvz 1849 days ago
Agreed. I will put it even more directly.

I could not care less about the hype squad screaming endlessly about every single side project that is written in Rust because of the sake of the language. If it is useful and it makes me money then fine, other than that I ignore it.

If the tool that is being developed doesn't help me make money, then I do not care or I won't use it.

As for choosing the best programming language? I do not care unless it is the one that makes me the most money. in some use cases, it is definitely not Rust.
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staticassertion 1848 days ago
Why even go to a site like HN if your goal is purely to make money? You can make lots of money without reading 99% of the content here.

This is Hacker news. It's news for people who want to fuck around with tech.

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rvz 1847 days ago
> Why even go to a site like HN if your goal is purely to make money?

Yet this site seems to be hosted by a company whose goal is purely about making money by investing in companies they find which are likely to give huge returns. i.e A VC fund.

So rewriting it in Rust for the sake of Rust is irrelevant to them and doesn't give any advantage whatsoever and won't get their attention.

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krapp 1847 days ago
Yes. Many wannabe entrepreneurs come here hoping to gain "street cred" and get their "insightful" comments and projects noticed by YC, hoping to parlay that into funding or hoping a launch on HN will do for them what it did for others (like Dropbox.) Believe it or not Hacker News is serious business, there's a reason the staff is so guarded about releasing any code or hints about their algorithm that could be gamed.
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