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Comment by mrbig4545 | Hacker News Reader

I couldn't agree more. the article is well written, but the title puts me off a lot.

How am I going to show this to my boss, and have him take it seriously with such an infantile title?

You have the right to your own feelings, and I agree that the title may be off putting. The audience for the article is rust core contributors and rust fans, and they're a very informal bunch. If rusters are like similar communities I know, talking about poop makes a blog post more likely to spread.

EDIT: I do not want to argue with Dewey2, so I'm putting this here: the women in the rust community that feel uncomfortable when they are addressed as "guys" have every right to feel that way, and I commend the rust community on making that stand.

There's nothing to suggest all other rust devs like this way of presenting it. I don't. I agree it's off-putting even if the issue itself is interesting.

> How am I going to show this to my boss, and have him take it seriously with such an infantile title?

Probably the same way you would explain to your boss what KISS principle means or what WTF-metric for source code is :)

I don't know the wtf metric, but whatever it is it's not about "poop". So I'm going to say it's different.

It's an old joke, but it has a bit of wisdom.

Illustration: https://davidlongstreet.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/wtfm.jpg...

Why would you want to show it to your boss?

I tend to keep him updated with rust news, so that when the day comes, I've laid enough groundwork to be able to do something in it without having to explain what it is and why etc.

And part of that is showing flaws, and how they're resolved/worked around and so on.

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