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Joke 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://pangolinj
by asteli 7y ago
Joke 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.