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5 points by zgs ↗ HN
Why do some many trivial articles get posted when involving Rust? Especially when they are not overly interesting otherwise.

Mandelbrot in Rust was the latest I've seen -- nothing new to see here: this was mostly solved several decades back.

I'm waiting for an article entitled: "Bubble sort in Rust: still O(n^2) but better!"

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bombcar
“in Rust” is a well known HackerNews aphrodisiac.
seibelj
NoSQL, Ruby, microservices, meteorJS, Haskell... various technologies and languages that were fads on HN. Rust is currently in vogue but a backlash will hit at some point. I like Rust but it isn't the second coming of Christ. Honestly I prefer C for my low-level programming but that's me.
Cryptonic
Summing up integers in Rust is my favorite. You cannot imagine how obviously save and concise it can be done with little effort compared to let's say C++ (seriously).

Rust just is so elegant, beautiful, save and inspiring. Taking a lot of responsibility from your shoulders, while teaching you a lot about what was wrong with your naive programming in other languages before. (Also seriously)

X in Rust are my favorite articles on HN.

Cryptonic
Or to sum it up. Rust carries a promise in itself that when used idiomatically, you can lean back and did not acidentally step into pitfalls that will ruin the company, your work time or the user experience in the future.

If you ever tried to find that reason for a random crash at a random time in a very complex multi threaded project over several days, you know what I mean.