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I have never used or researched CockroachDB, my only exposure to it is when every few months a story about it comes to the front page of HN and the top thread i

I have never used or researched CockroachDB, my only exposure to it is when every few months a story about it comes to the front page of HN and the top thread is inevitably about people being upset at the name. I remember reading the first thread and being confused why so many people were missing the "obvious" meaning behind the name. Clearly it's not as obvious as I had initially thought, but it's the first thing that came to my mind. I know that's not the answer you want to hear, and I apologize for that.

geofft 6y ago
IMO this is a stronger reason - it's not that nobody gets the intended meaning, it's that enough people get the unintended one and every HN thread is derailed. If that's the sentiment on a community with downvotes and a strong culture of "we just care about the technical issues", imagine the sentiment on a team considering adopting it. FWIW I will never proactively advocate for this DB or try it out because I don't want other coworkers to feel squicked. I'll do my job if I find myself on a team using it, of course, but in my many years working on software, I've found that you can't make the computers happy unless the people typing into the computers are happy. Limiting the pool of people who can be happy reading CockroachDB docs when they're paged at 2am for an outage seems not worth the chance that it might page us at 2am slightly less.