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Note that this is a serious language proposal, but with a funny placeholder name so as to avoid bikeshedding until the feature is ready.
by ChrisSD 4y ago
Note that this is a serious language proposal, but with a funny placeholder name so as to avoid bikeshedding until the feature is ready.
- golergka 4y agoRust seem to be doing a lot of things right not only from language design or memory safety, but also from project management perspective.
- dgb23 4y agoWould be fun if they'd stick with it regardless.
- littlestymaar 4y agoThat's exactly what happened to Linux Mint's Warpinator the name was purposely chosen to be stupid as a temporary placeholder, and then they ended up sticking with it.
- MawKKe 4y agonothing is more permanent than a temporary solution
- monkeybutton 4y agoI wonder what's going to happen with dark matter and dark energy once physicists have it figured out. They'll give the discoveries proper names followed by media and pop culture using "Dark X" for the next few decades?
- jeroenhd 4y agoIn Rust, macro calls end in an exclamation mark (println!, try!). Even if the Rust devs pick throw as a keyword, I'm 100% sure someone will write a macro that will allow you to write yeet! instead. I'm 66% sure that this macro will end up being included in the dependency chain of a common framework as well…
- School-Cotton 4y agoNo it wouldn’t. I use rust for work which is frustrating enough without jokey meme bullshit. One of the most obnoxious things is people forcing other people to partake in their own sense of humor.
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- smokey_circles 4y ago
- JoshTriplett 4y agoExactly. We have general agreement that we want this feature, and several different opinions on what it should or shouldn't be called, and we wanted to enable experimentation without blocking on the naming discussion. (We'll have to have that discussion at some point.)
- dathinab 4y agoIt also massively reduce the risk of ofissication as with "yeet" it's pretty clear that you code will brake in the future ;)
- School-Cotton 4y agoIt’s not a funny placeholder name, it’s an annoying and extremely cringey placeholder name.
- smoldesu 4y agoI don't think they meant funny as in "it made me laugh", but more like "it was intended to not be taken seriously"
- throwaway894345 4y agoThey thought a placeholder name would stop you from bikeshedding? You showed them.
- School-Cotton 4y agoIndeed.
- rgrmrts 4y ago“cringe” is a separate expression analogous to panic but only used inside unsafe blocks and does not halt execution