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I disagree with the direction of this criticism. Building and shipping is the real victory for anyone with a passion project. To cut them down because of the pr

I disagree with the direction of this criticism. Building and shipping is the real victory for anyone with a passion project. To cut them down because of the project name is a cheap critique in my view. Besides, given the extreme signal:noise ratio of codebases that gain notoriety most projects that share a name or acronym will only have a handful of users even aware of both's existence.

capableweb 7y ago
Further with this specific example, "ReactiveX" doesn't even call itself Rx, at least judging by the website. Closest to "Rx" from "ReactiveX" is the different implementations, but they are called RxY where Y seems to be the language. So "RxJS", "RxNet", "RxClojure" and so on. So the name collision doesn't even apply with the mentioned project!
HelloNurse 7y ago
Well, it's a mistake. Due diligence, for any new project, requires searching for existing uses of the intended names and deciding whether they are confusing. It's difficult because it's easy to miss obscure social niches and name variants, and that's why most people make the task easier with an effort to find unique names. For example, a sloppy google search for "Rx" yields, in search result order: - two medical abbreviation, for "recipe" (i.e. "take") in medical prescriptions and for radiography: benign but common and used in proper names of pharmacies, labs etc.; - Radeon RX-something video cards, unlikely to be confused but likely to yield search result noise for something related to videogames; - some Lexus cars, popular but more harmless; - iZotope RX 7, a major software entry: professional "audio repair" DAW plugins from a popular company; - several unimportant random product and company names, including e.g. some Sony headphones, that collectively prove how "Rx" is an inappropriately short name. A longer and more unique name would clearly be a better choice. But a further web search for "rx pixel" yields an awful lot of medical video card and car results and a frontal collision on Twitter, where dr. Jennifer Hazel goes by "@Rx_Pixel". Searching for "rx editor" is also interesting: - a deluge of iZotope RX results (no hope to become more popular, low-resolution image editors are a smaller niche than audio production) - the highly popular RxJS JavaScript library. It doesn't take a JavaScript expert to figure out that it's highly popular: the home page mentions a conference about it. This last conflict should be enough to veto the name "Rx", even without more targeted searches (e.g. social media) and less online-visible usages (e.g. in telecommunications as an abbreviation of receiver or reception, paired with "Tx" for transmitter or transmission).
- cloudhead 7y ago
  Yes, except I like this name, and find it fitting, and no one can stop me. We have different priorities :)
- krychu 7y ago
  Did you try search “rx pixel”? Rx is a cool name, and easy to remember. I always have troubles remembering the exact spelling of aseprite and pyxel edit, for example.

capableweb 7y ago

Further with this specific example, "ReactiveX" doesn't even call itself Rx, at least judging by the website. Closest to "Rx" from "ReactiveX" is the different implementations, but they are called RxY where Y seems to be the language. So "RxJS", "RxNet", "RxClojure" and so on. So the name collision doesn't even apply with the mentioned project!

HelloNurse 7y ago

Well, it's a mistake. Due diligence, for any new project, requires searching for existing uses of the intended names and deciding whether they are confusing. It's difficult because it's easy to miss obscure social niches and name variants, and that's why most people make the task easier with an effort to find unique names. For example, a sloppy google search for "Rx" yields, in search result order: - two medical abbreviation, for "recipe" (i.e. "take") in medical prescriptions and for radiography: benign but common and used in proper names of pharmacies, labs etc.; - Radeon RX-something video cards, unlikely to be confused but likely to yield search result noise for something related to videogames; - some Lexus cars, popular but more harmless; - iZotope RX 7, a major software entry: professional "audio repair" DAW plugins from a popular company; - several unimportant random product and company names, including e.g. some Sony headphones, that collectively prove how "Rx" is an inappropriately short name. A longer and more unique name would clearly be a better choice. But a further web search for "rx pixel" yields an awful lot of medical video card and car results and a frontal collision on Twitter, where dr. Jennifer Hazel goes by "@Rx_Pixel". Searching for "rx editor" is also interesting: - a deluge of iZotope RX results (no hope to become more popular, low-resolution image editors are a smaller niche than audio production) - the highly popular RxJS JavaScript library. It doesn't take a JavaScript expert to figure out that it's highly popular: the home page mentions a conference about it. This last conflict should be enough to veto the name "Rx", even without more targeted searches (e.g. social media) and less online-visible usages (e.g. in telecommunications as an abbreviation of receiver or reception, paired with "Tx" for transmitter or transmission).

cloudhead 7y ago
Yes, except I like this name, and find it fitting, and no one can stop me. We have different priorities :)
krychu 7y ago
Did you try search “rx pixel”? Rx is a cool name, and easy to remember. I always have troubles remembering the exact spelling of aseprite and pyxel edit, for example.