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		0des on April 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Glicol - A Graph-Oriented Live Coding Lan... "Written in Rust" is the new "brought to you by Johnson and Johnson"

speed_spread on April 9, 2022 [–]

Dogwhistling for metal reductionists.

0des on April 9, 2022 | [–]

I'm not familiar with this term in this context, can you or someone help to fill in what I'm missing?

gpm on April 9, 2022 | | [–]

Pretty sure it's a joke about rusted metal.

bradrn on April 10, 2022 | | [–]

Except that would make it incorrect: rust is what forms when metal gets oxidised, not reduced.

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