Comment by eb0la
6 hours ago
It was a great opportunity to name a unix tool "mcfly" or just "Marty" for time manipulation. Better luck next time, I guess.
6 hours ago
It was a great opportunity to name a unix tool "mcfly" or just "Marty" for time manipulation. Better luck next time, I guess.
docbrown would be more appropriate, as the character who's actually doing the time manipulation.
That's... not terrible. Biff isn't exactly popular (yet?), so a name change isn't out of the question. Both of those names (and `biff`) are already taken on crates.io. Which is maybe not a huge problem. IDK. Naming is hard.
https://crates.io/search?q=bttf
// backronym bttf stands for biff time to format
You win the naming contest. The project has been renamed: https://github.com/BurntSushi/bttf/pull/14
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I like this
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Naming is hard, sure, but doing some due diligence up front to see what's already being used isn't very difficult. Very neat tool.
I did. I always do. I just missed this one. Or if I saw it, it didn't register for me and felt like it was just an old archaic tool. Which... is probably still true, but I under-estimated its mindshare. Just an honest unknown unknown.