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Much longer is, I guess, a matter of taste. For example the package name "go.uber.org/zap" [0] looks quite short to me. [0]: https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap
by Boulth 7y ago
Much longer is, I guess, a matter of taste. For example the package name "go.uber.org/zap" [0] looks quite short to me.
[0]: https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap https://godoc.org/go.uber.org/zap
Not to mention that short names get depleted eventually and one needs to use longer names then anyway (see npm namespaces).
- andy_ppp 7y agoOr even end up with low quality generic defaults for things like routing in react because someone got the default name of say the routing library.
- mstade 7y agoPresumably, if you really want short names, a local hosts like config with aliased names would do the job just fine. This has the added benefit that everyone can have their own aliases.
- cjbprime 7y agoNo, I think the attraction to centralization is not only that it can provide short names, but that it can provide short names that everyone agrees on the meaning of.
- WorldMaker 7y agoWhich is a fascinating echo of the arguments between proponents of AOL Keywords and DNS.