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by kllrnohj 1192 days ago
Rust is a genuinely interesting language but I think part of the problem is that a lot of the posts about it lately are just not. There's been a string of "we did generic boring thing everyone has been doing for a decade+ BUT IN RUST!!!!" articles lately that are not helping to dissuade the "cult vibes"

This link, for example, is... Boring? Like why is it here? What's to discuss? Should we just link to the PIP repository, too?
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capableweb 1192 days ago
> Like why is it here?

I submitted the URL and enough people found it interesting, so it ended up on the frontpage. The same for every submission you find on the frontpage.

> What's to discuss?

The state of game development with Rust. Apparently there is a lot to discuss, as it's currently on the #1 spot on the frontpage, with 60 comments.

> Should we just link to the PIP repository, too?

You're welcome to submit whatever websites you want. If enough people find it interesting, there will discussion around then subject.

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kllrnohj 1192 days ago
> Apparently there is a lot to discuss, as it's currently on the #1 spot on the frontpage, with 60 comments.

Half of which is "why/what is this" and "what's with the 'areweyet' thing?"

There's not a whole lot of discussion about game development in Rust going on, and less still about the actual content of the link.

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capableweb 1192 days ago
I count 9 + 13 + 7 "AreWeXYet" comments while the rest of the 100 comments (129 - (9 + 13 + 7)) seems to be related to the subject. "Rust" is mentioned 137 times.

Unless you've manually counted all the comments, it seems like you're incorrect, most of the discussions are related to the subject at hand, compared to this thread you started here :)

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Steltek 1192 days ago
Posts like this are for people interested in using Rust. It's advertising expanded functionality and access to more use cases. There are enough of those people on this site that it makes it to the front page. If you do not fall into the above class of people, then yes, this doesn't look interesting.

While I don't use or advocate for Rust in a professional capacity, I really like seeing the barrier to entry get lower and lower. In the same way that people fall back to Python for completely random tasks because it's familiar and the path forward is well mapped.

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