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Excerpted quote from their launch blog post ( https://blog.ballerina.io/posts/annoucing-1.0.0/ https://blog.ballerina.io/posts/annoucing-1.0.0/ ): > That obvio
by yoz 7y ago
Excerpted quote from their launch blog post ( https://blog.ballerina.io/posts/annoucing-1.0.0/ https://blog.ballerina.io/posts/annoucing-1.0.0/ ):
> That obviously starts with the Enterprise Integrator team as that is where this baby was flirted with, dated and then conceived;
This is what happens when people think that coding is hard but writing is easy.
WSO2: Please, on behalf of innocent eyeball-owners everywhere, hire a dedicated content editor.
- skybrian 7y agoAlso, the front page ends with a picture of someone massaging a programmer's shoulders.
- afiori 7y agoI understand their idea, but that is not something to be expected by a ballerina
- rmilejczz 7y agoIt’s a visual metaphor, the ballerina represents the language and they are supporting / comforting the programmer. I’d say its pretty corny, especially when a bunch of literal engineers need it explained to them, but it’s not just a random picture of a back rub
- UncleMeat 7y agoIntention and interpretation are different. People who have already had rough gender experiences in software might read this image differently than you.
- _8ljf 7y agoYou don’t even need to read past the product name. Like a lot of geeks they just don’t have a clue how to sell, nor how to hire talent that can. There is no part of their branding that is not a straight disaster. (And that shoulder massage…oy.) Look, real ballerinas are totally hardcore badass atheletes who could easily kick all our flabby nerd asses while standing on one toe, and I take my hat off to them for what they do. But how many professional software developers will really want to self-identify as “ballerinas” when discussing between themselves, never mind pitching to board rooms? (Outside of the programmers-who-already-happily-self-identify-as-bronies subset, of course.) Doubly so when the actual product looks as agile and graceful as a household broom. Triply so when they can’t even do simple web pages right. (Just try the inline links on the Community page.) Or try the learn-by-example page, which spends seconds looking completely blank until some pointless Web 2.0 crap eventually loads in a perfectly static TOC. I mean, I was prepared to overlook the marketing catastrophe just to read about their much vaunted take on structural typing (which is highly relevant to my interests), but this simple lack of technical competence means I am not going to waste any more time. Money says the whole thing immediately sinks without trace, and none involved will ever be any the wiser why. What a pointless waste of effort.
- Guthur 7y agoYou see a shoulder massage, I see someone giving support to and obviously nervous programmer :) Granted though I can't see where the name is coming from.
- zeeza 7y agoI read somewhere that the name originates from the graceful and seamless movements you see in a Ballet recital. The seamless integration and interactions of components in a distributed system is likened to that of a Ballet troupe.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoYeah, just seems like maternal guidance to me. People nitpicking the gender of the programmer in a cartoon here is a great example of what I despise about modern tech discourse. The gender of the cartoon programmer isn't even that clear, it's so highly stylized. But I wonder if it was a woman giving another woman a massage instead, they'd be lambasted for pandering to the male fantasy of lesbianism.
- carapace 7y agoWell I see a Leanan sídhe sucking some mysterious lifeforce out of the programmer while "stimulating certain areas of his brain". I don't know what to make of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muse_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muse_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Spac...
- zeeza 7y agoI think Ballerina is a rather catchy name, to each his own I guess
- minraws 7y agoCatchy doesn't mean marketable or hospitable. You don't/won't go out saying you love Ballerina. :P The problem is that you should not use a widely used word for the name of your product/software/tools. It's hard for everyone who tries to get involved. A good name IMO is Typescript if you want to compare.
- faitswulff 7y agoWhat, you don't flirt with, date, and then conceive babies? What kind of timelord are you?