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Do you not remember ten years ago when this was a thing with Python? It's an effective evangelism tactic. Super annoying, but it "works" in some sense. I consider it like "YouTube face", I tolerate it because even good projects or creators have to play the game to some extent or get washed away in the crapflood.


HN in particular has a long history of this kind of thing, e.g “Written in Ruby”.

(Or if you’ve been around super long, “written in Lisp”.)


I doubt that a GitHub README is used for language evangelism. If at all, it's project promotion.

Also, I don't find it annoying, but helpful, because I care - amongst other things - about the language of open source software projects.


> I doubt that a GitHub README is used for language evangelism.

Perhaps you should reconsider this. OpenVMM split up its docs and there isn't much in the actual README, but a few seconds investigation led me to https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm/blob/main/Guide/src/dev... , for example.

> Also, I don't find it annoying, but helpful, because I care - amongst other things - about the language of open source software projects.

Come on, this is not even a good strawman. It's very easy to find out the language of you want to know, and it's possible to inform without evangelism.


> OpenVMM split up its docs and there isn't much in the actual README, but a few seconds investigation led me to https://github.com/microsoft/openvmm/blob/main/Guide/src/dev... , for example.

this is a reason to reconsider my statement why?

> Come on, this is not even a good strawman.

It's not a straw man at all. It's my opinion.

> It's very easy to find out the language of you want to know, and it's possible to inform without evangelism.

Indeed, but nothing makes it more straight forward than the language being mentioned in the HN News title




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