I’m curious about this as well. Although it contains a mammoth amount of work by hundreds of people, it’s very similar to the progress made in the previous weeks. I would have thought TWIR #400 would have been a milestone to post about.
Well yeah, but I have read the same issue and found it not particularly remarkable out of all the TWIR issues, so I was wondering if I missed something.
It's just that the poster linked specifically this one issue, instead of the homepage, so it's not like they want to make us aware that TWIR exists, they want us to notice this particular issue.
Right, the TWIR link reminded me I had intended to bookmark it, and so I did, but #398 without context, eh, who knows.
Like, maybe they are very enthusiastic about enums being able to easily implement Default (and thus you could #[derive[Default)] for a structure that uses that enum for a member)
Or they're extremely excited about fairly obscure new Clippy lints.
Still it's occasionally worth stepping back a moment, this is a lot of changes, isn't it a blessing that Rust is able to move this quickly? Like taking a moment to appreciate that, although the air on your street could be better (more EVs please) the lack of horses everywhere does mean it doesn't stink of horse shit this century.
But I suspect the reality is that you can sometimes get HN to upvote This Week in Rust, and so why not post it and get some Internet points? Unlike some off-topic rant about cats or Obama or a new movie, you aren't likely to get downvotes, so worst case it falls off the front page unnoticed.
I'm very much pro-Rust and use it myself, but it is on HN very often as it is, and there is no need to shove it down people's throats even more than everyone already does. That's why I was hoping (and probing) for newsworthiness beyond "isn't Rust cool".
Remember how when people wax nostalgic about programming language wars there is the obligatory quip about the relentless and obnoxious media blitz of yesteryear to promote Java?
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
-Solomon (he/him)
Rocket updates maybe? It's a nice looking web framework that's been in a slightly weird "choose between the version that needs nightly rust *as default* and the version that isn't on crates.io" situation. That, and linux integration.
I'm guessing TWIR was new to the poster (it is to me), the specific issue was more or less coincidence, and the upvoting was from people (like me) previously unaware of this periodical?
My guess would be due to the recent news about Linux development incorporating rust. Though it was already a fairly large discussion here. Most of the other news items seem pretty regular.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 47.0 ms ] threadIt's just that the poster linked specifically this one issue, instead of the homepage, so it's not like they want to make us aware that TWIR exists, they want us to notice this particular issue.
Like, maybe they are very enthusiastic about enums being able to easily implement Default (and thus you could #[derive[Default)] for a structure that uses that enum for a member)
Or they're extremely excited about fairly obscure new Clippy lints.
Still it's occasionally worth stepping back a moment, this is a lot of changes, isn't it a blessing that Rust is able to move this quickly? Like taking a moment to appreciate that, although the air on your street could be better (more EVs please) the lack of horses everywhere does mean it doesn't stink of horse shit this century.
But I suspect the reality is that you can sometimes get HN to upvote This Week in Rust, and so why not post it and get some Internet points? Unlike some off-topic rant about cats or Obama or a new movie, you aren't likely to get downvotes, so worst case it falls off the front page unnoticed.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." -Solomon (he/him)
I think you misunderstood the intent of gp's question. The "it" could be mean very different things:
(1) It is this particular #398 issue has something notable in it that the previous 397 issues don't have: https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/archives/index.html
or
(2) It is the whole TWIR blog of only which #398 is merely a representative sample that has no more and no less significance than the previous issues
Hopefully they'll chime in themselves.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27746130