For me it means I can fork the repo and start hacking on the code immediately, and it will have reasonable quality.
With C++/Python and even Node I often find myself wasting half a day just getting it to build.
Yep. If it's a Python project, it's about a 60% chance it won't run on the first try after a fresh clone.
When I see a CLI tool written in Rust or Go, it usually just works out of the box without having to mess around with godawful pip environments or conda.
I say this as someone who cut their teeth on and loves Python for a thousand reasons, I have to agree. Python projects are abysmal. Rye and UV are promising (and I am very excited about them), but they aren't quite ready yet.
"Written in Rust" carries with it significant promises that only Go also has. (Go has a lot of the same promises, for having good tooling and the same mostly-statically-compiled philosophy.)
"Written in Rust" tells me a project is easy to install and easy to hack on. I am far less interested in using non-Rust projects, and I am definitely disinterested in making code contributions to non-Rust projects.
Case in point: It took me much longer to write this comment than it took to install and use marmite.
This. It's basically about average quality. It's the old Python Paradox all over again. Javascript / Typescript is the bottom of the barrel in terms of quality. Python / C++ is higher than that. And Rust is at the top.
bschwindHN|1 year ago
When I see a CLI tool written in Rust or Go, it usually just works out of the box without having to mess around with godawful pip environments or conda.
lynndotpy|1 year ago
"Written in Rust" carries with it significant promises that only Go also has. (Go has a lot of the same promises, for having good tooling and the same mostly-statically-compiled philosophy.)
"Written in Rust" tells me a project is easy to install and easy to hack on. I am far less interested in using non-Rust projects, and I am definitely disinterested in making code contributions to non-Rust projects.
Case in point: It took me much longer to write this comment than it took to install and use marmite.
ilrwbwrkhv|1 year ago