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by seph-reed 2091 days ago
This is crazy, but I kind of like the way web does new features.

They start off with a name that obviously will never be needed (eg "moz-blur") and work with that for a while until it becomes apparent what "blur" should be.

If the rust developers had named "Range" as "RustRange" or something else weird to start with, then they could come back through later and name it to the more desirable name. This seems like a good tactic whenever you're still trying to figure something out but intend to put it in production anyways.

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