| jamiedumont let out a rambonctious laugh to himself. - Ah, you got me good you meddling kids! jamiedumont was talking to himself again. hackerbod slowly leaned over and squinted at the screen. - Uh Typst? - Yeah! It’s a typesetting markup language. It’s supposed to be better than things like latex. - Ok. What’s so funny about it? - Oh hehe, it’s written in—guess what? - I dunno? - Rust! jamiedumont started giggling but hackerbod remained neutrally unamused. - Oh come on! Rewrite in Rust? Language zealots? Young adults who can’t program without some Ruby syntax sprinkled in? - So this “typt” thing— - Typst. - Right, Typst, this typesetting thing was created to promote Rust in some way? - Oh I don’t think so. - It doesn’t mention Rust on the homepage or something? You know, Written in Rust? - Nope. Not to my recollection. - So is it a rewrite of something else in— - Nope. - So then what does that have to do with— - Ah, but you’re missing the bigger picture, hackerbod. - Ok. - Year after year of this eye-rolling promotion and nagging, blah blah blah memory unsafety is bad, blah blah this is why we used angle brackets for generics, and these sly bastards went and pulled off the most epic Trojan Horse that I’ve ever seen been— - And what’s that? - They made an actually useful language! hackerbod had to scoot back as jamiedumont fell off his swivel chair because he was laughing so hard. hackerbod scratched his head. jamiedumont finally recovered from the ab-induced euphoria. - Ah hackerbod, I hate to admit it but they got me good! Those cursed language zealots got one over on me! |