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> the Rust jihad As a Rust jihadist myself ... yeah I can't disagree with this description. Even I get sick of all the Rust chatter/evangelism on HN sometimes.
by samhw 4y ago
> the Rust jihad
As a Rust jihadist myself ... yeah I can't disagree with this description. Even I get sick of all the Rust chatter/evangelism on HN sometimes. I love it and it's my preferred tool, but I wouldn't mind hearing about some alternative topics at least some of the time.
(As for the article: I wrote Go for several years professionally, and what he says, well - rem acu tetigit. I know a lot of people on that former team who were converted to Rust by the experience of writing Go. And then I know others, with a natural propensity to cultishness, who just responded the way so many people are responding in this thread.)
- cdelsolar 4y agowtf is rem acu tetigit
- samhw 4y agoSorry - 'hit the nail on the head'. Literally: (you touched == tetigit (tangere)) ([the] point == rem (res)) (with [a] needle == acu (acus))'.[0] 'Point' (res) is already abstract - 'matter', 'thing' - not being used figuratively like the rest of the phrase. It's one of those phrasoids which is permanently stuck in my head from Latin classes when I was a teenager, but I might've been wrong in thinking it was one of the more widely-recognised ones. [0] 'You' is implied by the second-person verb ending on 'tetigit', 'with' is implied by the ablative case ending on 'acu' (the 'ablative of means'), while 'the' and 'a' are filled in altogether since Latin has no concept of definite/indefinite articles.