Comment by thewhitetulip
4 days ago
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?
4 days ago
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
So the "trend* is that everyone didn't figure out the arbitrary deadline you came up with on when everyone should stop using regular words?
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