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by luck_fenovo 3337 days ago
It is an unfortunate name. I don't know why, given how inclusive the Rust community usually is and how eager they were to remove master/slave terminology, that they would choose to announce this effort under the banner of Nazi war tactics.
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Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14275990 and marked it off-topic.

Yes, it is a well known fact that Germans have no word for 'lightning' anymore. Such a tragedy that 75 years later, we're still supposed to be fighting the Nazis on their terms.
I unironically agree with this. That's not a use of the generic German word for lightning, it's a specific reference.