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Comment by axlee

13 hours ago

I'd recommend changing names, nitro is already a semi-popular server engine for node.js https://nitro.build/

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nine_k  13 hours ago

Any well-known generic word is very likely to already have been used by a bunch of projects, some of them already prominent. By now, the best project name is a pronounceable but unique string, for ease of search engine use. Ironically, "systemd" is a good name in this regard, as are "runit" or even "s6".

  • lrvick  13 hours ago

    I use tiny init systems regularly in AWS Nitro Enclaves. Having the enclave and init system both named nitro is not ideal.

  • Y_Y  10 hours ago

    > Any well-known generic word is very likely to already have been used by a bunch of projects,

    Are you sure? There are lots of words, and not so many projects that use words like these as their names.

    Of the 118179 packages I see on this Ubuntu 18.04 system I can roughly roughly ask how many have names that are dictionary (wamerican) words:

      comm -12 <(apt-cache dumpavail | awk -F': ' '/^Package:/{sub(/^lib/,"",$2); print $2}') /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l

    This gives 820 (or about 1000 if you allow uppercase). Not so scientific, but I think a reasonable starting point.