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When go was the hip new language, you saw this same basic comment here all the time, replacing rust with go.

It didn't seem to hurt the language much.



Your account was created 15 years ago. The account you were replying to was created 60 days ago.

People who’ve been here a while remember when “written in Go” was appended to everything. When “we decided to rewrite X in Go” would show up every other week. The new thing is going to get attention from people who haven’t used it but are interested.

In a few years we’ll have new accounts complaining that there are too many articles about Carbon or whatever is new then.


Rust is the new thing?


Case in point. Rust is eternal. Rewrite it all in Rust and you will be rewarded in the afterlife.




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