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by KerrAvon 488 days ago
Acknowledged, but said maintainers need to learn to cope with the relentless advance of technology. Any software engineer with a long career needs to be able to do this. New technology comes along and you have to adapt, or you become a fossil.

It's totally fine on a personal level if you don't want to adapt, but you have to accept that it's going to limit your professional options. I'm personally pretty surly about learning modern web crap like k18s, but in my areas of expertise, I have a multi-decade career because I'm flexible with languages and tools. I expect that if AI can ever do what I do, my career will be over and my options will be limited.
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BlackFly 487 days ago
To play devils advocate, for every technology that comes along with an advancement a handful come along with broken promises. People love to make fun of Javascript for that, but the only difference there is the cadence. Senior developers know this and know that the time and energy needed to separate the wheat from the chaff is exhausting. The advancements are not relentless it is the churn which is.

That being said, rust comes with technical advances and also with enough of a community that the non technical requirements are already met. There should be enough evidence for rational but stubborn people to accept it as a way forward

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manmal 488 days ago
Totally tangential, but since I just recently found this out: character-number-character, like [k8s, a16z, a11y] means that 8/16/11 characters in the middle are replaced by their count. I was wondering why kubernetes would be such a long word, when you wrote k18s. Maybe it was just a typo on your end, and this system is totally obvious.
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layer8 488 days ago
These are called numerical contractions [0] and are fairly well-known, in particular i18n and a11y.

Another one that used to be well-known is s9y for Serendipity [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym#Numerical_contractio...

[1] https://s9y.org/

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manmal 487 days ago
I brought it up because GP had k18s.
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sophacles 487 days ago
It's kubernetes, and either a typo or a muscle memory confusion with i18n (internationalization).
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a1o 488 days ago
I think kubernets is only the sound
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