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The real reason they couldn't find anything when Googling the language in the future is because of the inconvenient naming. Every time I search for Crystal, I h
by vinceguidry 11y ago
The real reason they couldn't find anything when Googling the language in the future is because of the inconvenient naming. Every time I search for Crystal, I have to pick out the results from SAP Crystal Reports.
I wish more people took this aspect of their projects seriously. You don't need a short domain name, but your project does at least need to be Googlable.
- sanxiyn 11y agoI agree, but I note some of this is out of your control. Rust used to be very clean wrt Google, and then Rust the game was released in 2014.
- arnvald 11y agoIt's the same with other languages as well: Go, Julia, Ruby (when I searched for some "Ruby Bangkok" meetups, I found thousands of offers to buy real rubies in Thailand. Same with frameworks: Phoenix, Sinatra, Iron, Gin. After some time Google learns and shows you relevant results, but if you use Startpage or DuckDuckGo, you have to add "lang" or "framework" to search query
- fao_ 11y agoC is by far the worst... Side Note: In DDG Lua doesn't need 'lang', you can type in a function name and it'll give you documentation in the 'instant answers' thing.
- sdogruyol 11y agoYou can use #crystallang
- thomasfl 11y agoGoogle seems to know that when I am searching for ruby, I want it to rank the programming language first. In due time it will know that by crystal I mean the programming language.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoSearch for "crystal language" instead.