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Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate

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228 points Retro_Dev | 4 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | source
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ksynwa ◴[04 Jul 25 05:57 UTC] No.44461535[source]▶
Is Writergate a technical term or a reference to Watergate?
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1. kzrdude ◴[04 Jul 25 09:10 UTC] No.44462708[source]▶
by now it's a well worn/used trope to make -gate names for any scandal. But the distance in time (and culture) to the original Watergate scandal is growing, so it seems less impactful now.
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2. simondotau ◴[04 Jul 25 23:59 UTC] No.44469007[source]▶
Weird that anyone is downvoting this, as it’s a precisely correct answer.
3. lenkite ◴[05 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44473472[source]▶
It also deeply confuses international readers. Need to learn American history to to get an idea of what is being conveyed.
4. geon ◴[05 Jul 25 22:58 UTC] No.44476231[source]▶
> the original Watergate scandal

You mean the Watergate-gate?