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I wish they had chosen a more "modern" name for the language.

• jambutters 2mo ago
  Honestly a unique searchable name is better. I type in racket and results are mixed with tennis and I need to suffix "Language"
  • peesem 2mo ago
    well, i also have to type "rhombus language" to get relevant results for the rhombus language
  • jimbob45 2mo ago
    .NET/.NET Core/.NET Framework migration is painful because of this. VS/VSCode is sometimes only possible with AI’s help.
  • sudahtigabulan 2mo ago
    There is a naming tradition in the Lisp world, which Racket devs apparently have chosen over searchability. Qualities or activities that have negative connotations. Guile. Gauche. Larceny. Racket. I think it started with theorem provers - Planner, Conniver. Then Scheme[r].
    • neilv 2mo ago
      A funny thing was, when the rename to Racket was still fairly new, someone started looking into adopters in the finance space.
    • Y_Y 2mo ago
      I don't think Gauche fits there. There is a tradition of naming with synonyms for "scheme" (as in a criminal enterprise) like the others you listed, with some more peripheral ones like Gambit, Ruse, Artifice.
• Jtsummers 2mo ago
  What would be a modern name for a language?