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That's because "easy to google" is much more important in the short, medium, and long runs than "easy to guess what it does"
by neutronicus 6y ago
That's because "easy to google" is much more important in the short, medium, and long runs than "easy to guess what it does"
- archgoon 6y agoIndeed, and in a previous era, "to google" was "Who wrote the main papers on this, who should I look up?". Honestly; that's true still today.
- sorenjan 6y agoRust, Go, C, D, R, Flask, Rocket.
- YetAnotherNick 6y agoAppend programming language to the query for searching. Imagine C++ would be named as "Object oriented, generic, general purpose programming language with C compatibility"(of course C won't be named C then).
- elondaits 6y agoIt could be called Stroustrupilian ... or "The one with Turing complete templates".
- xxs 6y ago> "The one with Turing complete templates" Java has Turing complete generics as well
- Mindless2112 6y agoYou mean "C with Classes"?
- elondaits 6y agoNot everything is easy to Google: C, D, F, R, COM, .NET, node ...
- kalium-xyz 6y agoio-lang
- Someone 6y agoPython (the snake; doesn’t show up at all for me in Google’s “All” results). Swift (the bird; Google eventually gives me https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swift https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swift, but that page thinks it’s more common as a name of a lizard than as the name of a bird, so Google’s small preview says “Definition of swift · 1 : any of several lizards (especially of the genus Sceloporus) that run swiftly · 2 : a reel for winding yarn…”)
- mcbuilder 6y agoC and R turn up top results with the single letter, D works if you add "language", F is more niche but not hard with some Google Fu, same with the other examples. Not everything is easy to Google, but I find those to be very niche or technical topics, e.g. a random linker error that has many other similar terms with another set of related errors.
- kalium-xyz 6y agoI highly doubt this will work out well in the long term. Considering that once something new comes out with a similar name or even the word which was misspelled to form the name of some JS framework it will rise above in the search results.