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Holy shit. The language name alone is a really, really stupid idea. Protip: If you're inventing a new esoteric programming language (and until you have other p
by fake-name 8y ago
Holy shit. The language name alone is a really, really stupid idea.
Protip: If you're inventing a new esoteric programming language (and until you have other people implementing non-trivial projects in/using your language, it is an esoteric programming language), google the fucking name first.
If googling your intended <thing's> name results in more then 1000 hits, CHANGE YOUR <thing's> FUCKING NAME.
If you don't trying to find any resources about the <thing> on the internet will be a huge pain in the ass. Name your project something unique.
Googling "flux" results in "About 197,000,000 results". If you just make it a little more specific as "fluxql", you get ~142 results.
People looking for language resources will actually find the shit they're looking for, and the name actually tells you something about what it does, which is nice.
- pauldix 8y agofluxlang is what people should be searching for and we'll continue to point that out in future blog posts, documentation, #fluxlang on Twitter and SO and everywhere else. People got there with Go, so I assume people will get there with Flux if the language is successful.
- fake-name 8y agoPeople got there with Go because google is huge. If you're going with fluxlang, don't call it anything but "fluxlang". Referring to the same thing multiple ways is even worse.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> People got there with Go Just because being Google can compensate for a bad choice doesn't mean that it's a choice to emulate.