[jxf]

> please write out all acronyms the first time you use them

Like any other writing, it's just about knowing your audience.

I mean, are you really going to write "HN (Hacker News)", "YC (Y Combinator)", "HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol)", etc. every single time you use those in a comment here?

[strommen]

Oh come on. WCF is pretty obscure. .NET is pretty unknown to many HN readers, and even within .NET WCF is not very widely used.

[bunderbunder]

Bits of every domain are obscure to someone. But it seems to me that the only domain for which use of acronyms in article titles ever seems to provoke this level of irritation is Microsoft's. Makes me suspect that this particular debate is really just a proxy for a different argument altogether.

[ilitirit]

> WCF is pretty obscure

Is this really the case? I've been using it since it's inception (never used "Indigo" in production). At the time it was a godsend because our company was moving to a SOA (ahh... the dark ages) using Oracle Fusion Middleware, and judging by the job postings over the years I suspect many other non-Java/Oracle houses also adopted WCF.

I did not realize it was considered an obscure technology.

[WDCDev]

WCF has quite a bit of adoption in the .NET community. I am currently working on a major WCF project that uses TCP streaming and named pipes.

This is the third project I have worked on that uses WCF, and I have been working on the .NET platform since Beta.

[recursive]

I recall getting a pretty negative reaction on Hacker News for not knowing what GHC meant.