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  • sus@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devToo Many Acronyms
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    24 days ago

    The oxford that says this?

    Acronym

    1. A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism

    or the merriam webster that says this?

    Some people feel strongly that acronym should only be used for terms like NATO, which is pronounced as a single word, and that initialism should be used if the individual letters are all pronounced distinctly, as with FBI. Our research shows that acronym is commonly used to refer to both types of abbreviations.





  • They seem to believe Vlang is a cult, and don’t like promoting it because of that.

    Now I’m pretty sure Vlang is not literally a cult, though it does have a history of controversy where it claims to be ready-to-use and with lots of features, but actually half the features are not implemented and the rest are extremely buggy (at least in 2022), and if you bring that up with the V community they really don’t like that.

    It is partially self-hosted though, which is cool I guess