[iterateoften]

Not really.

Rust is significantly more discussed than Haskell ever was. Haskell barely ever had more than a couple hundred comments / posts. Rust has thousands.

Haskell was never discussed more than Ruby or Python and you can go to the archives to prove it. This year, Rust is more popular than Ruby and Python combined for discussions on Hackernews.

[pron]

It is also more discussed than TypeScript and maybe about as much as Go was at a similar age if not more, both of which have had a much more positive trajectory. My point is that HN hype is a really bad predictor of success or failure.