GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust

Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by Blikkentrekker on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:11PM (#25718374)

This is indeed a point of contention among different styles of whether software titles should be italicized. Though the position that they should uniformly be is the minority one, it is certainly used by some outlets with considerable weight, and I believe it to be the consistent one if titles of books and films are too.

Some style guides make the even more inconsistent distinction that only titles of video games be italicized, but titles of “application software” not be.

I suppose that on H.N., where such software is frequently mentioned, it does stand out more.

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by unanswered on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:55PM (#25718933)

The video games example seems consistent to me; we regularly italicize the names of plays (for example) but not the names of tools and businesses.

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Re:GCC Rust: GCC Front-End for Rust by Blikkentrekker on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:26PM (#25719284)

Because tools and businesses are not titles that qualify for intellectual property, a piece of software is.

I do not italicize Google the company either, but I do that of Google the search engine.

The titles of scientific research papers are also typically italicized.

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