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Yep. Picking cute short brand names for libraries as though they were startups clutters up the namespace of programmer's conversational language causing ambigui
by duncanawoods 10y ago
Yep. Picking cute short brand names for libraries as though they were startups clutters up the namespace of programmer's conversational language causing ambiguity and obfuscation. It would make life easier if we adopted an informal naming convention for small libraries e.g. <lang><brand><purpose>. Lang is useful when libraries get ported so you get e.g. PyMayaTime, GoMayaTime etc. Still sounds cute but you know what its for when you pick up someone else's code and its easy to google.
- Senji 10y agoPicking names which collide with stuff seems to be the standard these days. Don't get me started on Google(Chrome, Go)