These kinds of posts, by the vendor comparing to a competitor, always leave such a bad taste in my mouth. They decrease my confidence in both the product and the vendor. Stand on your own merits.
There's a saying in Dutch: "Wij van Wc-eend adviseren Wc-eend"[1]. It basically boils down to pretending to give advice or information but you're just promoting your own interests.
The Hashicorp ones tend to be well written and informative. I have found them useful in the past, even though I usually loathe sales BS. In this case the bias is a bit more obvious but we know it's written by Hashicorp and can make allowances.
I know what mean, but it's not like they're pretending that much if it's an article hosted under nomadproject.io. The first question everyone is going to ask "why should I use this instead of K8s" so you might as well have a good answer.
On the other hand, the Rust project has purposefully avoided "Rust vs X" comparisons on its website. I can't find the HN comments to back this up, but people like steveklabnik have indicated that they don't find that sort of adversarial comparison to be useful. Rust has done an excellent job at community building, so I give a lot of credence to their approach.
I'd love to read a blog post on that. I completely see how it's a difficult line to walk - you don't want to be "Rust is better than all these rubbish languages" but you still want to provide people with information so that they can make informed choice.
The standard refrain in companies is "don't talk about your competitors, talk about yourself". And that's fine, unless nobody wants to buy your product because your competitor is all anyone talks about. At a certain point you do need to tell people why you're better than the competition.
But actually, they're not competitors. Hashicorp supports K8s clusters for their customers. Nomad is just a product they built that is an alternative to K8s, and plugs into their whole product suite. Someone has probably asked them many times, "Why should I use Nomad instead of K8s?" So they have a page about it.
There's a saying in Dutch: "Wij van Wc-eend adviseren Wc-eend"[1]. It basically boils down to pretending to give advice or information but you're just promoting your own interests.
[1]: https://untranslatable.co/p/amarens/wij-van-wc-eend