[rendall]

You're not wrong.

HN Rust articles: 4 in the last 24 hours (not including this one)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

HN Go articles: 0 in the last 24 hours https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=1&prefix=true&que...

JavaScript: 5 in the last 24 hours - a much more popular language but none of these got to the front page

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Counting comments per article the difference is even more dramatic

[lucozade]

Not sure if this is interesting but only one of those Rust articles is about Rust or its usage. The rest are about programs written in Rust.

For Javascript it's the opposite; only one is about something written in Javascript. The rest are about language or its usage.

Not sure if one can say that that's an indication of pumping. Seems more an indication of usage.

[rendall]

Good point.

I don't know what "pumping" means in this context.

Should we take this as an indication of community interest? Community members are using JavaScript, but interested in Rust and what it can do.

[holmium]

"Pumping" in this context is a very thinly veiled pejorative. The original question is using it in the sense of a "pump and dump" [1]. They're implying that the amount of Rust content on HN is in some way artificial: it's the strike force[2] posting a bunch of articles, or its some startup throwing "made in Rust" in their title for attention, etc.

As you might guess, it's hard to distinguish between a "pump" and general interest in something. And, of course, each probably does feedback into other.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

[2] https://enet4.github.io/rust-tropes/rust-evangelism-strike-f...

[hcabral]

Not pump and dump, didn't mean to be pejorative. Promoting, or "celebrating" could be suitable to my original question. =)

[AnimalMuppet]

Well, the Go 1.18 article dropped 3 hours after you wrote this, and has been on the front page ever since. 295 comments so far.