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I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're most
by asteli 7y ago
I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're mostly moving over to Pangolin with Clamp on the backend." (substituting Pangolin and Clamp for any other nouns)
I don't think he ever caught on.
- rglover 7y agoHilarious. Stealing this idea, thank you.
- mcv 7y agoNote to self: check out Pangolin and Clamp. I've got to say, they sound totally believable. I'm not entirely convinced you're making a joke here.
- asteli 7y agoJoke is on me. I picked those nouns at random but Pangolin is a bona-fide frontend framework[1] and Clamp is a text truncating utility.[2] 1: https://pangolinjs.org/ https://pangolinjs.org/ 2: https://github.com/josephschmitt/Clamp.js/ https://github.com/josephschmitt/Clamp.js/
- mcv 7y agoIt does emphasize the point that we're running out of nouns.
- asteli 7y agoI work in electronics and laser stuff, where we use german-style compound names like "multi-pixel photon counting" and "erbium-doped fiber amplifier." Even in low-level compute, packages are named descriptively e.g. FreeRTOS. Lots of acronyms, but very few cute single-word nouns to name things. I've only observed that trend in relatively high-level software.