But then again...maybe alias?
5 November 2025
Hmm, as I re-read the post I literally just posted a few minutes ago, I got to thinking. Maybe the right name is indeed Alias, and not Share. The rationale is simple: alias can serve as both a noun and a verb. It hits that sweet spot of “common enough you know what it means, but weird enough that it can be Rust Jargon for something quite specific”. In the same way that we talk about “passing a clone of foo” we can talk about “passing an alias to foo” or an “alias of foo”. Food for thought! I’m going to try Alias on for size in future posts and see how it feels.