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Off topic but the name, Flow, will get confusing fast. Flow is already used by several projects including Facebook's Flow, a direct competitor to Microsoft Typ
by Lio 10y ago
Off topic but the name, Flow, will get confusing fast.
Flow is already used by several projects including Facebook's Flow, a direct competitor to Microsoft Typscript.
Meanwhile FlowType.js helps with typography.
Not to be confused with Flowjs, which is for HTML5 file transfer.
This is probably going to end up in a search ranking dance off with whoever has the deepest pockets winning.
https://flowtype.org https://flowtype.org
http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/ http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/
https://github.com/flowjs https://github.com/flowjs
- d0vs 10y agoSo only confusing to JS devs
- Lio 10y agoWell that's OK then. :) That was really just first three things that came to mind as I know that Typescript competes with Flow (the open source project started by Facebook). Other non-javascript products with the same name include project and workflow management software. My point was more about how larger organisations usually win when they take a common or functional name for their products. Microsoft has a long history of trademarking generic terms. I mean if I use the phrase "an SQL database server" or "a windowing operating system" which products do you think of? In the case of "Flow" it's an overloaded product name and whichever entry comes up first in Google's search results will probably end up 'owning' the name. Currently for my results it's Microsoft.