> What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust
The first unique characteristic is that it was built in Rust? Why does it matter from a user perspective? I was expecting the first point to be something that would convince me to check it out.
Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software. I got a bit confused.
Looking good regardless :)
fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future.
but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.)
we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out that we really liked it too.
While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.
I hate that too, of course, but as long as it doesn't creep into the actual product or website itself, it doesn't really matter.
At least they aren't using five digit years...
And after looking at the site more, I have to say I'm pretty interested. It is a nice-feeling site. There's a few UI oddities that need to have the rough edges sanded off, but I very much like the main approach.
totally agree we should not tollerate lack of shift key use and punctuation
what demographic is that?
Me, on an international team, as learned that flawless english sentences as a metric about as silly as dress codes in business. I'll take my california laidback-ness to your stuffy NYC banker rules.
The demographics I'm part of have trouble taking seriously people who yell at kids who live two blocks away when someone from one block away wanders onto the yard the kids are playing in.
guess im a joke to you then
I worry that what they’re trying to say is that it was vibe coded but vibe coded in a language with a pretty solid linter.
What an irony that those exact safety guarantees that made it attractive are now a detriment because they make the project smell like AI.
> Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software.
Surely it is at least in part. We're talking about the announcement of a new open source project that isn't ready to use yet which would presumably enjoy people helping make it work for them, and a new startup around that open source project that is likely to be hiring in the future (or even maybe right now? Didn't check).
> Why does it matter from a user perspective
It implies that there was likely a small degree of rigour in the construction... not a large one (very little software has that)... and not a guarantee... but likely more than the abysmally small average in the software world.
I am tired of "built in Rust" as an argument, you are spot on, it should not matter. But you are shooting right at Rust culture here haha
And I'm tired of the "tired of 'built in Rust'" arguments because it also shouldn't matter if someone happens to describe their project that you didn't have to go out of your way to talk about in a way that bothers you. But I'm shooting right at the "tired of 'built in Rust'" culture here.
You can take these arguments to an unbounded level of depth; someone can be tired of my responses to the responses to so me someone happening to care about something different than them. It's all equally silly, and if you're convinced that your level of depth is reasonable but the others aren't, I'd highly recommend trying to think about why you're so confident that your opinion is important but ones that come after aren't, because it's very unclear to anyone who doesn't already agree with you, and that's usually a sign that there's no point in saying it at all.