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That's exactly the etymology. We were thinking about datacenters and servers. The original name was convox/kernel, but we thought it wasn't very descriptive.
by mwmanning 10y ago
That's exactly the etymology. We were thinking about datacenters and servers. The original name was convox/kernel, but we thought it wasn't very descriptive.
The naming collision with the Ruby interface is unfortunate, but we figured it was pretty easy to tell them apart from context.
- ShaneOG 10y agoTbh I agree that as a descriptive name it works quite well. However, it will muddy the waters for people trying to solve problems in future. For example, this tag on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rack http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rack