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Somewhat meta, but why would Microsoft I use the Kit suffix which has been widely used by Apple adopted from NeXT?
by jonhohle 4y ago
Somewhat meta, but why would Microsoft I use the Kit suffix which has been widely used by Apple adopted from NeXT?
- koujaku 4y agoThat'd be my fault, me and my co-workers were working with a lot of tools that had the "Kit" suffix when we started on it :O Apple's definitely not the only one who does it!
- wutwutwutwut 4y agoBecause the term is not allocated specifically to Apple.
- jonhohle 4y agoSure, but it has a 30 year lineage in their active product line. It would be like prefixing a library with Direct in the early 00s. It seems ignorant and derivative.
- tokinonagare 4y agoFor the same reason they registered the domain typescriptlang.org instead of typescript.org: riding on the hype train created by others. Besides, the project looks really interesting, I'll have a look into it.
- wutwutwutwut 4y agoWhat is the hype train you associate with typescriptlang.org? "Lang"?
- unwind 4y agoI associate it with "golang", the search-optimized way to refer to the language Go, from the world's largest search company.
- wutwutwutwut 4y agoSure. But would you refer to that as the "hype train"?
- jonhohle 4y agoBefore golang there was rubylang, clang, racketlang, dlang, slang, etc. Seems like a pretty common convention for language websites not limited to a single organization. Be used “Kit”, but I’m not familiar with anyone else that did (and NeXT used it long before they did).
- evan_ 4y agoI think they probably used typescriptlang.org because typescript.org was registered in 2006 for a CMS called Typescript.
- ramesh31 4y ago>Somewhat meta, but why would Microsoft I use the Kit suffix which has been widely used by Apple adopted from NeXT? The *Kit libraries from Apple are always capitalized. UIKit, SceneKit, WebKit, etc. The generic use of *kit for other libraries is pretty common though.