On: Why Dark didn't choose Rust

[lubesGordi]

Did I miss something? "I don't like x,y,z, languages so I picked F#." I didn't see anything about F# in this post.

[mumblemumble → lubesGordi]

It's in a separate post, referenced by the 2nd link in the article. The link text is just the word "posts", so it's easy to miss.

https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/

[pbiggar → mumblemumble]

Thanks. Just updated the post to be a bit clearer on this.

[marcinzm → lubesGordi]

He links in the blog to his previous long post explaining why he chose F#:

https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/

[brmgb → lubesGordi]

No, they did three parts so they could hit the front page three times. The whole thing is clearly a Dark marketing campaign but people upvote it so the community must like it.

[robocat → brmgb]

Your comment should be flagged, but perhaps review the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

And factually I think your opinion is incorrect. The first post didn’t seem like it was tailored for HN, and he said he was surprised:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981505

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24980661

Meanwhile it looks like this discussion has been modded down to remove it from front page due to the low quality of comments (yes: this comment doesn’t meet standards either but maybe it helps you?...)

[Dylan16807 → robocat]

Which part of the guidelines are you referring to? I don't think this counts as an accusation of shilling/astroturfing or similar. And they didn't say it shouldn't have been submitted.