If you're not into selfies, you may ignore the fact that your smartphone has a front facing camera. It may not be for you, but other people do use it.
HN is a tech community, which means there're many programmers here. Some people may use X and also contribute to X, or at least want to dig into the source code.
For example, since I'm a Rust programmer and not an R programmer, I'm more interested in "A fast query engine written in Rust" than "A fast query engine written in R". There're benefits of using a program written in a language you're familiar with. One of them is when you find a bug you can dig into the source code, post an issue which point out which code might cause the bug, better yet post a PR. Instead of "Please help, X failed to do Y."
If you have looked at rust, you would understand that "Written in Rust" means something more than just the face value.
Written in Rust means that there will be less memory/concurrency bugs due to the language itself ruling out classes of those bugs and that is a feature that I would definitely care about in any peice of software I use.
This. I don’t really care about replacing Java or Python or Go with Rust (any perf difference might not be worth the extra effort), but evidence has been mounting for my entire career that we must leave C and C++ behind if we’re ever going to arrive at a platform that works reliably.
the worst part is that testing might give something that is reliable against non-malicious inputs, and then explode given malicious ones. actually, that's not the worst part. the worst part is when nothing seems to occur on a malicious input, but actually rce is occurring https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i....
