alt Hacker News>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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maharshi365 • yesterday at 8:16 PM
Yeah I think a better header is good. The idea isnt bad in concept.
youngtaff • yesterday at 8:18 PM
Well Malte came up with AMP so there’s a history of doing odd things
therein • yesterday at 8:10 PM
> Accept-Language: rust
That's craziness.
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.