>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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urbandw311er 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	graypegg 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People keep trying to systematize things for the tools they keep saying don't need systemization. No idea why you can't just put the documentation programming language context in the URL. "/docs/typescript/...", "/docs/python/..." etc. I don't think the agents are struggling with the idea that different URLs have different responses, and that checking the sitemap is a good idea. Tangential: A rare en–dash user out in the wild!

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maharshi365 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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youngtaff 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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therein 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Accept-Language: rust

That's craziness.