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Alexis Beingessner
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Alexis Beingessner

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Worked on Homestuck, Rust, Swift. Currently working on Firefox. Trying to kill C(++) and its ilk. agender(?), he/she/they

Joined September 2009

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    Alexis Beingessner‏ @Gankro 12 Jul 2016

    Sad to see so many people parroting the meme that Rust was named after fungus, rather than the vastly superior meme of making the origin up.

    11:04 AM - 12 Jul 2016
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      2. Alexis Beingessner‏ @Gankro 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @Gankro

        @graydon_pub plz publish more origin stories for maximum chaos

        2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Graydon Hoare‏ @graydon_pub 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @Gankro

        Sadly, it actually was named after fungus. I MEAN IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ROOST, A PUN ON CHICKEN SCHEME, BECAUSE ACTORS & CALL/CC

        2 replies 10 retweets 27 likes
      4. edunham‏ @QEDunham 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @graydon_pub @Gankro

        so like... roostlang?pic.twitter.com/J7BXbpZDPg

        2 replies 3 retweets 15 likes
      5. Graydon Hoare‏ @graydon_pub 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @QEDunham @Gankro

        Next iteration of broken telephone: proustlang

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. edunham‏ @QEDunham 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @graydon_pub @Gankro

        TIL who proust is. Anyways, back to work now...pic.twitter.com/DXidHXqqXT

        2 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
      7. Alexis Beingessner‏ @Gankro 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @QEDunham @graydon_pub

        this is my favourite thread

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      8. Alexis Beingessner‏ @Gankro 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @Gankro @QEDunham @graydon_pub

        the P and O were dropped from PROUST after they abandoned Palindrome types and Oculus rift support

        1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
      9. Lars Bergstrom‏ @larsberg_ 22 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Gankro @QEDunham @graydon_pub

        I thought system Graydon originally programmed on limited executable names to exactly 4 characters as part of the filename/typename duality.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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      1. steveklabnik‏ @steveklabnik 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @Gankro

        they also like, say it while linking to the comments that say explicitly that it's not the only reason for the name

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      1. ::{self, Hoodie};‏ @hoodie_de 12 Jul 2016
        Replying to @Gankro

        I thought it was named after the home of this amusement park:http://m.yelp.com/biz/europa-park-rust …

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