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So, to be clear, a month ago there was an announcement about an app called Sketch (renamed to Snack now apparently) that was a playground for React code, but pe

So, to be clear, a month ago there was an announcement about an app called Sketch (renamed to Snack now apparently) that was a playground for React code, but people said it was a bad name choice because Sketch is already a ui/ux dev/design tool in this space. But this tool is related to that ui/ux version of Sketch (but with/for React), and not the mis-named Sketch (that was for React)? Naming is fun.

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jongold 9y ago
Yup. We were aware of the Expo issue, and thought about renaming it, but looking at the landscape of React renderers — - react-dom - react-native - react-vr - react-hardware - react-blessed - react-three - react-aframe etc it felt like the right thing to do was a descriptive "this is what it is" name rather than a "marketing name" that would be more confusing.
rhizome 9y ago
So, to be clear Yeah, about that. Are you saying that the "React Sketch.app" in the title is/should/will be "React Snack.app?"
- jongold 9y ago
  no.
  - tomcam 9y ago
    i'm hopelessly lost
    - joekim 9y ago
      Snack - Description: Web-based react-native playground. Snack was previously called Sketch which led to much confusion. - Built by: Expo Sketch.app - Description: Most popular native mac app for designing UIs - Built by: Bohemian Coding react-sketchapp - Description: Convert a UI written in react-primitives to sketch. react-primitives is a subset of react-native. - Built by: Airbnb I want to say Snack has nothing to do with react-sketchapp, but unfortunately they do share a couple of things. The developer/user of both tools will write code that is largely compatible with each other, basically a shared subset of react-native. Then, there's the whole confusion with the name Sketch. Snack used to be called Sketch. react-sketchapp uses "Sketch.app" as a rendering engine and editing interface. "Sketch.app" is basically the next program in the workflow for the user of react-sketchapp.
dikaiosune 9y ago
For anyone missing context, naming is hard. https://blog.expo.io/expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b https://blog.expo.io/expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b
- nimchimpsky 9y ago
  its not hard, just don't name a new design app after an already existing one.

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jongold 9y ago

Yup. We were aware of the Expo issue, and thought about renaming it, but looking at the landscape of React renderers — - react-dom - react-native - react-vr - react-hardware - react-blessed - react-three - react-aframe etc it felt like the right thing to do was a descriptive "this is what it is" name rather than a "marketing name" that would be more confusing.

rhizome 9y ago

So, to be clear Yeah, about that. Are you saying that the "React Sketch.app" in the title is/should/will be "React Snack.app?"

jongold 9y ago
no.
- tomcam 9y ago
  i'm hopelessly lost
  - joekim 9y ago
    Snack - Description: Web-based react-native playground. Snack was previously called Sketch which led to much confusion. - Built by: Expo Sketch.app - Description: Most popular native mac app for designing UIs - Built by: Bohemian Coding react-sketchapp - Description: Convert a UI written in react-primitives to sketch. react-primitives is a subset of react-native. - Built by: Airbnb I want to say Snack has nothing to do with react-sketchapp, but unfortunately they do share a couple of things. The developer/user of both tools will write code that is largely compatible with each other, basically a shared subset of react-native. Then, there's the whole confusion with the name Sketch. Snack used to be called Sketch. react-sketchapp uses "Sketch.app" as a rendering engine and editing interface. "Sketch.app" is basically the next program in the workflow for the user of react-sketchapp.

dikaiosune 9y ago

For anyone missing context, naming is hard. https://blog.expo.io/expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b https://blog.expo.io/expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b

nimchimpsky 9y ago
its not hard, just don't name a new design app after an already existing one.