[ajsnigrutin]

Why does this (and quite a few other articles here) always mention 'rust' in the headline? Are there other split-tunnel solutions that are not written in rust? Is this one better feature-wise or does rust somehow make it better, that people would choose this instead of <some other> software? If it's the only software that does this, why is rust important then, if there are no non-rust alternatives?

There have been literal "text editor written in rust" articles here, and instead of mentioning why I should use the text editor (why is it better than vi, emacs, notepad++,...), the only feature is "written in rust"... why?

[capableweb]

Well, the same thing is true for other languages too. Some languages used to be popular to mention, because they were new and shiny (like Ruby, was a period of time when "X written in Ruby" was popular on HN), and others are seemingly always worth mentioning, like Common Lisp or Clojure.

Bunch of language nerds on here (both world and programming languages), so kind of makes sense to share a bit about the language.

[brndnbuilds]

I suppose we're all here to discuss new things and ideas and Rust is "new". So with that in mind, people may be interested to know how others are experimenting and building with it.

[jdironman]

Not only that, sometimes when I want to know more about a particular tech I search HN and Reddit and other places for it. Having it in the title makes it easier to know it's in the stack.