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I get that naming is one of the hardest problems in computer science, but naming software after a martial art is just lazy and will lead to problems with things
by chaostheory 2y ago
I get that naming is one of the hardest problems in computer science, but naming software after a martial art is just lazy and will lead to problems with things like searches
- red_admiral 2y agoLike naming your language after a common two-letter verb. At least we can search for 'golang'.
- riwsky 2y agoIf it helps, they actually named it after their desired CLI abbreviation: > The command-line tool is called jj for now because it's easy to type and easy to replace (rare in English). The project is called "Jujutsu" because it matches "jj".
- gcarvalho 2y agoAnd the martial art is jiu-jitsu, not jujutsu. Similar sounding but definitely not “named after”.
- yencabulator 2y agoNo it's not, but so far the Brazilians are still sticking with the incorrect ~1908 way of writing it. Standard Japanese pronunciation for "jutsu" does not contain an i, and it's also judo not "jiu-do" that the old system would have called for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu#Etymology
- stavros 2y agoI guess it's lucky they misspelled it, so there's no conflict.
- martinvonz 2y agoI would have spelled it "jiu-jitsu" if I had not looked up the spelling first and found that Wikipedia decided to spell it "jujutsu" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujutsu). Maybe I trusted Wikipedia too much; I have never practiced jujutsu/jiu-jitsu myself.
- stavros 2y agoOh wow, I had no idea, thanks.