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well_ackshuallyyesterday at 8:08 PM4 repliesview on HN

>Recently, a Vercel engineer called on harnesses to send the programming language the client prefers

oh would you look at that, Vercel suggesting to abuse how standard headers have been used for decades so it can send Accept-Language: rust because it's too lazy to ask for standardising an X-Prefers-Lang or anything else, and Shopify is here to shit on the internet too. Great.


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urbandw311eryesterday at 8:15 PM

Don’t worry, you don’t need to attack them – they do a great job of making themselves look ridiculous with their ignorant conversation. I would be so embarrassed if I had suggested that in public then subsequently discovered that the header doesn’t mean that at all.

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maharshi365yesterday at 8:16 PM

Yeah I think a better header is good. The idea isnt bad in concept.

thereinyesterday at 8:10 PM

> Accept-Language: rust

That's craziness.

youngtaffyesterday at 8:18 PM

Well Malte came up with AMP so there’s a history of doing odd things