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I love Jose Valim's work (even back to the inherited resources days!), but with a very popular Nx already out there (nx.dev a dominant player in the monorepo sp

I love Jose Valim's work (even back to the inherited resources days!), but with a very popular Nx already out there (nx.dev a dominant player in the monorepo space) this naming just adds to confusion. Nx is on the thoughtworks radar so not exactly unknown: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/tools/nx https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/tools/nx I know for a fact it has already confused elixir developers who were looking for an elixir plugin for Nx (the monorepo tool).

ch4s3 5y ago
Well there isn't an Nx.dev plugin for Elixir, is there? Nx for Elixir is a nice shorthand for Numerical Elixir. Nx.dev just looks like a consulting company jumping on a short domain when the .dev TLD became available and then using it for a project later. The nx.dev site was only launched in 2019, and then as an Angular dev tool, and as an Elixir dev I hadn't heard of it until after Nx elixir existed, which seems to have started some time in mid to late 2020. [1]https://web.archive.org/web/20190501153325/https://nx.dev/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190501153325/https://nx.dev/
- engineerio 5y ago
  that's not really correct. nx is from 2017: https://github.com/nrwl/nx/graphs/contributors https://github.com/nrwl/nx/graphs/contributors . might even be longer because I think the company is nrwl. the nx.dev site is just what I'm pointing to, dunno what url it was before that. no idea if there was an elixir plugin for nx (easy enough to integrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRIXPTIKTmA&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRIXPTIKTmA&t=6s) but I'd have no hope of finding it now . it's totally not the worst thing that nx was also the name Valim chose (I have no investment in to tool or company myself), but it is bad for both projects.
  - ch4s3 5y ago
    My point was that it wouldn't have been on the radar for anyone in Elixir land, and having a name clash with what looks to be a JS focused tool isn't that big a deal when they're in really different domains.

ch4s3 5y ago

Well there isn't an Nx.dev plugin for Elixir, is there? Nx for Elixir is a nice shorthand for Numerical Elixir. Nx.dev just looks like a consulting company jumping on a short domain when the .dev TLD became available and then using it for a project later. The nx.dev site was only launched in 2019, and then as an Angular dev tool, and as an Elixir dev I hadn't heard of it until after Nx elixir existed, which seems to have started some time in mid to late 2020. [1]https://web.archive.org/web/20190501153325/https://nx.dev/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190501153325/https://nx.dev/

engineerio 5y ago
that's not really correct. nx is from 2017: https://github.com/nrwl/nx/graphs/contributors https://github.com/nrwl/nx/graphs/contributors . might even be longer because I think the company is nrwl. the nx.dev site is just what I'm pointing to, dunno what url it was before that. no idea if there was an elixir plugin for nx (easy enough to integrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRIXPTIKTmA&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRIXPTIKTmA&t=6s) but I'd have no hope of finding it now . it's totally not the worst thing that nx was also the name Valim chose (I have no investment in to tool or company myself), but it is bad for both projects.
- ch4s3 5y ago
  My point was that it wouldn't have been on the radar for anyone in Elixir land, and having a name clash with what looks to be a JS focused tool isn't that big a deal when they're in really different domains.