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Whoa wait a second, I feel like this is burying the lead: you can write native android apps in go[1]. I feel like that's a very big deal, especially for game companies wanting native speed, and a 'modern' language and toolkit.

[1] E.g. http://talks.golang.org/2014/gothamgo-android.slide#1

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Thought it might interest you that the term is "burying the lede". One of those weird terms like "champing at the bit" or "eke out a living" that uses a word that sounds like a modern English word but is actually a slightly arcane word. In this case lede is "the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story".

Maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph

Now I'm curious. I've got 'lede' -> 'lead' and 'champing' -> 'chomping'.

What's the "modern" term in "eke out a living"?

Okay, I found it myself. Apparently the word confused for "eke" is "eek". But their meanings are so different to me that I'm having trouble seeing it!

Well I always get a chuckle when I see people talking about 'eek'ing out a living, but I kind of get it. Eek! can be an exclamation of alarm, so eeking out a living would be just barely making it in a constant state of alarm. It changes the meaning of the term but lets you use it in a contextually similar way.

For a bunch of reading about related "evolution" of arcane words, see Language Log's archive about "eggcorns": http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=49

It's a big deal, but it's not exactly news. It was part of the Go 1.4 release, about a month ago, and also announced well before that on the golang-dev mailing list. Both times it was discussed extensively here on Hacker News too.

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