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by sph 7mo ago
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- mikae1 7mo agoNope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts I think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something.
- thewhitetulip 7mo agoI dislike this trend of common words being used for tools It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?
- boobsbr 7mo agoJava and Ruby were created in 1995. Lua in 1993. Python in 1991. C in 1972. Lisp in 1960.
- thewhitetulip 7mo agoBig difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020
- saghm 7mo agoSo the "trend* is that everyone didn't figure out the arbitrary deadline you came up with on when everyone should stop using regular words?
- KetoManx64 7mo agoYou don't use the same marketing strategies as people did in 1960 if you want to sell your product in 2026 unless you purposefully want to fail.
- saghm 7mo agoSo, tracing back to the original comment in this thread, Go and Rust were failures due to them having insufficient mindshare? If anything, people have often criticized the Rust community for marketing too much.
- linzhangrun 7mo ago[flagged]