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Re:I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023 by shrimp_emoji on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:20PM (#36091483)
This is the sheep dev. They're in WG14. Show some respect.
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Re:I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023 by hxugufjfjf on Saturday May 27, 2023 @02:13AM (#36092472)
What is sheep dev and WG14? Genuinly curious.
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Re:I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023 by SSLy on Saturday May 27, 2023 @06:47AM (#36093622)
Sheep is the fursona they use, WG14 is the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 C standards committee.
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Re:I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023 by cmcaine on Saturday May 27, 2023 @06:51AM (#36093642)
ThePhD is project editor for WG14, the C language standards committee. The other poster is probably referring to them as "the sheep dev" because ThePhD is prolific on GitHub and have an anthropomorphic sheep as their profile image.
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