Haha, nah. I think hackers have been naming things like this since the beginning of time and it's absolutely part of the culture.
I don't think everything needs to be corporate Memphis in text form. Let's have some squirrelfish extreme in this.
Corporate mode comes eventually with quality. And Rust has passed the initial hurdle of adoption. It's pretty much what Python was in the year 2000: the exciting new tech that has adoption.
It's an art style that you'd recognize from thousands of slapped together 2000s web sites and PowerPoint slides. It's flat and colorful and a bit blobby. It has become a watchword for bland, boring, and approved by upper management.
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Haha, nah. I think hackers have been naming things like this since the beginning of time and it's absolutely part of the culture.
I don't think everything needs to be corporate Memphis in text form. Let's have some squirrelfish extreme in this.
Corporate mode comes eventually with quality. And Rust has passed the initial hurdle of adoption. It's pretty much what Python was in the year 2000: the exciting new tech that has adoption.
We tend to forget, being so used to them, but both C and C++ have playful names (C is a successor to B, and C++ is an incremented version of C)
UNIX also has a playful name (from Multics)
What is “corporate Memphis”?
It's an art style that you'd recognize from thousands of slapped together 2000s web sites and PowerPoint slides. It's flat and colorful and a bit blobby. It has become a watchword for bland, boring, and approved by upper management.
A mysterious company in Illinois. If you sail your boardroom past Cairo there it is.