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It's a terrible name, anything starting with the abbreviated prefix "Gen" is hopelessly ambiguous. Is it "Generate"? "General"? "Generic"? "Genetic"? "Genesis"?
by argvargc 5y ago
It's a terrible name, anything starting with the abbreviated prefix "Gen" is hopelessly ambiguous. Is it "Generate"? "General"? "Generic"? "Genetic"? "Genesis"? While some would certainly be less frequently encountered, all can easily be found in programming context. When seeing "GenXxxxx" I could well understand someone feeling immediate brain-fog.
That said, this is one of very few criticisms I can level at Elixir, and it's a tiny part of the eco-system - literally, one single name. I wonder would it be easy to alias?
- OkayPhysicist 5y agoYup. alias GenServer, as: GenericServer Done.