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Cool project. Small rant; can we please stop titling our libraries with the language extension as a portion?

• frankling_ 11y ago
  Who's "we"?
  • wolfgke 11y ago
    The Hacker News Community?
  • superfunc 11y ago
    I tend to see it a lot in python, go and rust as of late.
    • pekk 11y ago
      It is largely because the package namespace is polluted, so the name you want is never available.
• jMyles 11y ago
  How come?
• jondlove 11y ago
  I like it (for otherwise generic names); it quickly shows which language the library is for, reduces name collisions, and makes Googling easier.
  • superfunc 11y ago
    That's fair, but I feel like most languages have searchable package repositories, and I'd be searching in one of those, eliminating the need for such naming.
    • icebraining 11y ago
      Package repositories are useful to download the libraries; not so much if you're looking for discussions regarding them.
• belleandsebasti 11y ago
  This is part of Python culture. That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"
• nikolay 11y ago
  I can hande the "py" prefix or suffix (hopefully lower-cased though), but the dash is too much!