← Back to context Comment by sph 2 days ago Zed Text, not affiliated with the Zed text editor. 7 comments sph Reply mikae1 2 days ago Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fontsI think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something. thewhitetulip 2 days ago I dislike this trend of common words being used for toolsIt started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop? linzhangrun 1 day ago Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches. boobsbr 1 day ago Java and Ruby were created in 1995.Lua in 1993.Python in 1991.C in 1972.Lisp in 1960. thewhitetulip 1 day ago Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020 2 replies →
mikae1 2 days ago Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fontsI think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something.
thewhitetulip 2 days ago I dislike this trend of common words being used for toolsIt started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop? linzhangrun 1 day ago Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches. boobsbr 1 day ago Java and Ruby were created in 1995.Lua in 1993.Python in 1991.C in 1972.Lisp in 1960. thewhitetulip 1 day ago Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020 2 replies →
linzhangrun 1 day ago Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches.
boobsbr 1 day ago Java and Ruby were created in 1995.Lua in 1993.Python in 1991.C in 1972.Lisp in 1960. thewhitetulip 1 day ago Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020 2 replies →
thewhitetulip 1 day ago Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020 2 replies →
Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts
I think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something.
I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools
It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?
Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches.
Java and Ruby were created in 1995.
Lua in 1993.
Python in 1991.
C in 1972.
Lisp in 1960.
Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020
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