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This discussion thread is hilarious (and adorable) to me. Makes me feel old (in a good way) that there are folks for whom the default meaning of "fork" is git(h
by zellyn 8y ago
This discussion thread is hilarious (and adorable) to me. Makes me feel old (in a good way) that there are folks for whom the default meaning of "fork" is git(hub), rather than the unix fork syscall.
- nathan_f77 8y agoOHHH. Haha I had to read your comment before I understood the title. I knew they were talking about the fork syscall while reading the article, but I still assumed the title referred to "forking the compiler on GitHub, so that they could make it better and send a pull request." It didn't click that the title was also talking about the fork() syscall. I think it's a pun though: "To try it yourself, check out the dmdforker branch in my dmd GitHub fork."
- zellyn 8y agoDouble OHHH. Just realized upon reading your comment that I'd read the title/article the same way, and then forgotten. I guess “forking the D compiler” naturally leads to the source-forking context. I guess I've learned to forget/ignore the titles on hackernews after using them to decide whether to click through, since they so often mess with them.
- JshWright 8y agoHasn't the term 'fork' been overloaded long before GitHub (or even git)? Project forks have been a thing for as long as there have been open source projects...
- zellyn 8y agoYep. Although it was github with the t-shirts… :-)