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Once again the one of the hardest problems in software engineering is naming things.

• keybored 4y ago
  Is it a bad name?
  • atty 4y ago
    It clashes with the AI code writing tool of the same name.
    • fnfjcu7 4y ago
      Which came first?
      • dotancohen 4y ago
        The egg.
    • wyager 4y ago
      This predates the AI thing by years.
    • keybored 4y ago
      Then the AI code writing tool should be criticized instead.
  • Kye 4y ago
    See also: Meta Lots of things predate Meta (Facebook) and Copilot (Microsoft), but the new thing muscled its way in and now anything that already had those names will struggle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4spxWgms1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4spxWgms1c
    • dotancohen 4y ago
      A recent stack overflow bikeshed asked why Firefox refers to it's UI elements by the name of Google's browser.
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• dqpb 4y ago
  Solved by namespaces