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Yeah, they should've gone with more descriptive names such as "The Clojure Interactive Development Environment" and "The Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs". It's

• gtvwill 6y ago
  I honestly find it difficult to keep track of these names and their double meanings. It doesn't come across instantly as an acronym it just looks like a company name being yelled. If it were an acronym I'd expect full stops between each letter. I find the long names far more descriptive and useful I can read that and go yep...topic has no interest to me. CIDER doesn't have the same effect. This ain't just this app that's done it. Another app I had a similar mental struggle associating was slack. Literally can't get into my head what the term slack has to do with a messaging app.its been too long associated in my head as a negative term for being lazy. I come from a work history in construction. Things are called what they are and namings generally pretty basic. I don't find dealing with the naming in tech anywhere near as easy. It's a bit of a barrier to learning for me tbh.
  • nimih 6y ago
    Truth be told, I share your frustration in general with tech naming, especially with enterprise tools and web development tools, but I do think that acronyms and initialisms--when the expansion is descriptive and accurate (a non-example being LAME, for instance)--are a reasonable compromise between "call something what it is" (which CIDER and SLIME both do, modulo an extra snarky word or two) and "avoid having a name which is 25 characters long".