wow, Go seriously calls its UTF-8 character type "rune"? fuckin weird
@kinsey i thought that was common
@ky0ko is it? Go is the first language i've heard of using that terminology but it's possible i'm just out of the loop
@kinsey i mean i'm researching utf-8 and text rendering right now for a project i may be about to start and several codebases and libraries i've seen have used that term
@ky0ko oh well i guess that means i'm out of the loop then :P
@kinsey @ky0ko Rob Pike and Ken Thompson were both part of the creation of utf-8 and go. The first implementation of utf-8 came out of the plan 9 project, which they were both part of, and if you have a look in the code you'll see the that rune is used in many of the variable names. So, it's no wonder that the character type is called rune in go.
@quirk @ky0ko huh, TIL