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Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate

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229 points Retro_Dev | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.598s | 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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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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1. geon ◴[05 Jul 25 22:58 UTC] No.44476231[source]▶
> the original Watergate scandal

You mean the Watergate-gate?