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The name of this is a reference to the incredibly useful godbolt compiler explorer. If you are interested in this you will likely enjoy the other as well: http

The name of this is a reference to the incredibly useful godbolt compiler explorer. If you are interested in this you will likely enjoy the other as well: https://godbolt.org/ https://godbolt.org/

reaperman 3y ago
It might also be a bit of a portmanteau with a second reference to dogpile.com which was a pre-Google "search engine" that compiled search results from multiple search engines. Back in the day you often had to separately search altavista.com, lycos.com, askjeeves.com, yahoo.com, etc. because some of them would work for your query but others would not and it was difficult to predict the performance of any particular search engine, but usually at least one of them would have the result you wanted/needed. Dogpile was an automated way to search all of the search engines at the same time with one query. https://web.archive.org/web/19990429194414/http://dogpile.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990429194414/http://dogpile.co...
- psifertex 3y ago
  I do remember dogpile, but as one of the folks who named it, nope, that wasn't a conscious influence!
  - borski 3y ago
    Oh, it you! Hi Jordan I miss you let’s hang out sometime :)
    - psifertex 3y ago
      Yes, lets! And before hacker summer camp when we're way way too busy! :-)
- codetrotter 3y ago
  Look no further than https://dogbolt.org/faq https://dogbolt.org/faq > It's meant to be the reverse of the amazing Compiler Explorer. With a link to https://godbolt.org/ https://godbolt.org/ It’s very obvious that Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer is primarily named after Godbolt Compiler Explorer.
riffraff 3y ago
and for those who don't know it, that one is named after the author, Matt Godbolt. I thought for a longtime it was some joke I wasn't getting related to deities smithing people.
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  Damn. To just name something your last name. I thought it was the sibling part to the Jesus Nut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut
  - jchw 3y ago
    Could be misremembering, but IIRC it was called Compiler Explorer and used to live only on a subdomain of godbolt.org. But, it was so useful that it became presumably vastly higher traffic than the personal homepage part and people often referred to it as just "Godbolt" probably because it sounds cooler and is shorter than saying "Compiler Explorer" (and it may not be obvious the domain name is a last name rather than just a cool name for something.)
    - Waterluvian 3y ago
      Now that’s a pretty cool origin story for a name. What a compliment!
  - mattgodbolt 3y ago
    It's never been called anything but either "GCC Explorer" or "Compiler Explorer", by me, anyway... The URL it's accessible for is an accident of the one I had hanging around :) (it's now available at compiler-explorer.com too, but...the name other people use has stuck so I'll never be able to reclaim my own domain...)
    - Waterluvian 3y ago
      It’s such a memorable name for a tool like that. Other than losing your domain name to the topic, how do you feel about the de facto name? To a far far lesser degree, I’ve experienced many examples of “you named it X but everyone at work calls it Y and now you have to live with that.” It used to really irk me for some reason.
29athrowaway 3y ago
There's also RMSbolt, which is a Compiler explorer for Emacs, where Richard M. Stallman is regarded as the "creator".
- extraduder_ire 3y ago
  It makes for a nice parallel, since the original version of godbolt was just a split tmux session with vim running on one side, and "watch 'gcc -S -o /dev/stdout'" on the other. The main advantage of putting it online is not needing all of the compilers locally.
- account42 3y ago
  > Richard M. Stallman That's St IGNUcius to you. [0] https://stallman.org/saint.html https://stallman.org/saint.html

The name of this is a reference to the incredibly useful godbolt compiler explorer. If you are interested in this you will likely enjoy the other as well: https://godbolt.org/ https://godbolt.org/

reaperman 3y ago

It might also be a bit of a portmanteau with a second reference to dogpile.com which was a pre-Google "search engine" that compiled search results from multiple search engines. Back in the day you often had to separately search altavista.com, lycos.com, askjeeves.com, yahoo.com, etc. because some of them would work for your query but others would not and it was difficult to predict the performance of any particular search engine, but usually at least one of them would have the result you wanted/needed. Dogpile was an automated way to search all of the search engines at the same time with one query. https://web.archive.org/web/19990429194414/http://dogpile.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990429194414/http://dogpile.co...

psifertex 3y ago
I do remember dogpile, but as one of the folks who named it, nope, that wasn't a conscious influence!
- borski 3y ago
  Oh, it you! Hi Jordan I miss you let’s hang out sometime :)
  - psifertex 3y ago
    Yes, lets! And before hacker summer camp when we're way way too busy! :-)
codetrotter 3y ago
Look no further than https://dogbolt.org/faq https://dogbolt.org/faq > It's meant to be the reverse of the amazing Compiler Explorer. With a link to https://godbolt.org/ https://godbolt.org/ It’s very obvious that Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer is primarily named after Godbolt Compiler Explorer.

riffraff 3y ago

and for those who don't know it, that one is named after the author, Matt Godbolt. I thought for a longtime it was some joke I wasn't getting related to deities smithing people.

Waterluvian 3y ago
Damn. To just name something your last name. I thought it was the sibling part to the Jesus Nut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut
- jchw 3y ago
  Could be misremembering, but IIRC it was called Compiler Explorer and used to live only on a subdomain of godbolt.org. But, it was so useful that it became presumably vastly higher traffic than the personal homepage part and people often referred to it as just "Godbolt" probably because it sounds cooler and is shorter than saying "Compiler Explorer" (and it may not be obvious the domain name is a last name rather than just a cool name for something.)
  - Waterluvian 3y ago
    Now that’s a pretty cool origin story for a name. What a compliment!
- mattgodbolt 3y ago
  It's never been called anything but either "GCC Explorer" or "Compiler Explorer", by me, anyway... The URL it's accessible for is an accident of the one I had hanging around :) (it's now available at compiler-explorer.com too, but...the name other people use has stuck so I'll never be able to reclaim my own domain...)
  - Waterluvian 3y ago
    It’s such a memorable name for a tool like that. Other than losing your domain name to the topic, how do you feel about the de facto name? To a far far lesser degree, I’ve experienced many examples of “you named it X but everyone at work calls it Y and now you have to live with that.” It used to really irk me for some reason.

29athrowaway 3y ago

There's also RMSbolt, which is a Compiler explorer for Emacs, where Richard M. Stallman is regarded as the "creator".

extraduder_ire 3y ago
It makes for a nice parallel, since the original version of godbolt was just a split tmux session with vim running on one side, and "watch 'gcc -S -o /dev/stdout'" on the other. The main advantage of putting it online is not needing all of the compilers locally.
account42 3y ago
> Richard M. Stallman That's St IGNUcius to you. [0] https://stallman.org/saint.html https://stallman.org/saint.html