Yeet is only a placeholder for avoiding bikeshedding (https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3058-try-trait-v2.html#possibilities-for-yeet https://rust-lang.github.io

Yeet is only a placeholder for avoiding bikeshedding (https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3058-try-trait-v2.html#possibilities-for-yeet https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3058-try-trait-v2.html#poss...), but I do wonder if having it as the final keyword would in fact be a net negative. Sure, some people won't know the meaning of the word, but I'd argue that "raise" or "throw" meaning "propagate the previously caught error" is not obvious either, we're simply used to it. And it would take no time at all to infer from context/look up and it would be easy to remember. The biggest potential downside I can think of is opening the floodgates for adding more memey words to the language which could indeed be harmful. But I do think that having a quirky keyword like this could be a great benefit and not just in the "relating to them kids" sense. In my experience, the biggest obstacle to entering technical fields (a more relevant subtype of this is learning complex programming languages, such as Rust) is, for most people, not the lack of intelligence or resources, but rather the feeling that the insiders of those fields are in a different "category" of people. This is especially evident in interactions with PhDs. Even smart people, who have themselves successfully studied the fields in question at some point in their lives, upon finding out that someone has a PhD cease all attempts of analyzing what the PhD is saying and just nod along, as if the degree is an impenetrable intellectual barrier. In spite of being a decent programmer, it took me a long time to start reading computer science papers. Not because they were too complicated or I lacked context, but because the intentionally the language used made the work appear alien. And including even just a bit of spontaneous humanity can completely break this perception. I find this especially effective in textbooks. All of the textbooks I found most useful added many humorous tidbits. The purpose of those was not to have the amusement counteract boredom, the topics were fascinating by themselves, but rather to demonstrate to the reader that the author is in fact an individual of the same species. This is important, because such connection cannot be established if the book restricts itself solely to its main topic. The author is infinitely more knowledgeable than the reader in the relevant field (otherwise the reader would have no use for the textbook), so this demonstration of equality must come from elsewhere.