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I think Andrew is a big part of it, and the people he surrounded himself with are the other part. What kind of pre-1.0 language hosts conventions? Crazy that

I think Andrew is a big part of it, and the people he surrounded himself with are the other part. What kind of pre-1.0 language hosts conventions? Crazy that they manage to do that. Andrew's vision has always been clear and inspiring to me. I think this got Zig its initial following, and they have capitalized extremely well on it to grow as a community.

baranul 3mo ago
But, there is something uncouth going on at HN too. Attempts to submit articles for competing programming languages to HN often get removed. Doesn't matter the source either. Could be MSN, Medium, YouTube, whatever... Those other competing languages get censored or disappear, however, whatever kind of Zig article that is submitted appears to get heavily pushed and promoted on HN. No matter how much blatant marketing propaganda that it is or that it's coming directly from the language's site or team (as oppose to a reputable 3rd party source).