> "Entering the conversation just to let everyone know you don't care is tiresome and gratuitous."
No one broadly commenting on the "... written in Rust!" meme is saying that they "don't care". They are saying that they DO care. About the clout-chasing aspect, going unchallenged, clogging up a generally high-quality forum with what amounts to spam or clickbait.
If you get a lot of spam in your email inbox, you would take a dim view toward the pompous admonition, "If you are are not interested in homeopathic erectile dysfunction pills, then you are free to scroll onward and leave it to those who are". In the case of a message you DO happen to be interested in, you would still right to discourage the use of clickbait tactics or dark patterns with that message.
BOTTOM LINE: Either the topic of this this post is "Tauri", or the topic of this post is "Rust".
* If the topic is Tauri, then the clickbait meme detracts from the topic (I note with interest that the Tauri project itself does NOT promote itself on the basis of its implementation language).
* If the topic of this post is Rust, then well... I honestly think you'd be better served promoting a single "Look at all of these 'serious' projects written in Rust!" post, rather than sidejacking a myriad of topics individually in a clickbaity manner.
Either way, if you don't care about the spam/clickbait criticisms that always arise in these threads, then I invite you to leave that discussion to those who are interested.
"This topic is overvalued in the marketplace of ideas" is equivalent to "I don't care about this idea."
The problem with spam is that it is involuntary and fraudulent. The thing about articles on Rust is that participation is voluntary, and the claims they are only for clout are untrue, as I've argued.
I'd be curious what your answers to my thought experiments are.
ETA: I apologize for making you feel admonished, that wasn't my intention. I'm really not interested in criticizing you or anyone as people, but the behavior and the sentiment behind it. My intention wasn't to throw mud, but to hold up a mirror and show how this message is received; I did my honest best to compose a convincing counter argument, and the reaction I was going for was, "Gee, I hadn't thought of it that way", and not, "This jerk is calling me out."
No one broadly commenting on the "... written in Rust!" meme is saying that they "don't care". They are saying that they DO care. About the clout-chasing aspect, going unchallenged, clogging up a generally high-quality forum with what amounts to spam or clickbait.
If you get a lot of spam in your email inbox, you would take a dim view toward the pompous admonition, "If you are are not interested in homeopathic erectile dysfunction pills, then you are free to scroll onward and leave it to those who are". In the case of a message you DO happen to be interested in, you would still right to discourage the use of clickbait tactics or dark patterns with that message.
BOTTOM LINE: Either the topic of this this post is "Tauri", or the topic of this post is "Rust".
* If the topic is Tauri, then the clickbait meme detracts from the topic (I note with interest that the Tauri project itself does NOT promote itself on the basis of its implementation language).
* If the topic of this post is Rust, then well... I honestly think you'd be better served promoting a single "Look at all of these 'serious' projects written in Rust!" post, rather than sidejacking a myriad of topics individually in a clickbaity manner.
Either way, if you don't care about the spam/clickbait criticisms that always arise in these threads, then I invite you to leave that discussion to those who are interested.