> Your synapses trigger on something because of historical reasons.When you read a product description written by someone who hopes to draw positive attention to the product, it'll usually draw attention to its most important and distinctive features first.
For example, if you look up Stripe, you'll get "Stripe | Financial Infrastructure for the Internet - Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and financial solutions for businesses of all sizes."
If you look up Uber you'll get "Get a ride in minutes. Or become a driver and earn money on your schedule." Clang? "The Clang project provides a language front-end and tooling infrastructure for languages in the C language family". Ubuntu? "Ubuntu is the modern, open source operating system on Linux for the enterprise server, desktop, cloud, and IoT."
When the place you usually see the product's best feature says "written in rust" it sounds like they're damning it with faint praise.
Of course, not everyone follows the 'best feature first' pattern. For example, when asked about Stripe the first thing Wikipedia tells you is that it's dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States and Dublin, Ireland.
When you read a product description written by someone who hopes to draw positive attention to the product, it'll usually draw attention to its most important and distinctive features first.
For example, if you look up Stripe, you'll get "Stripe | Financial Infrastructure for the Internet - Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and financial solutions for businesses of all sizes."
If you look up Uber you'll get "Get a ride in minutes. Or become a driver and earn money on your schedule." Clang? "The Clang project provides a language front-end and tooling infrastructure for languages in the C language family". Ubuntu? "Ubuntu is the modern, open source operating system on Linux for the enterprise server, desktop, cloud, and IoT."
When the place you usually see the product's best feature says "written in rust" it sounds like they're damning it with faint praise.
Of course, not everyone follows the 'best feature first' pattern. For example, when asked about Stripe the first thing Wikipedia tells you is that it's dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States and Dublin, Ireland.