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It would be lucky for me if you were right, because there's a name I've fallen in love with and want to use for an open-source project that is roughly as semant
by gruseom 13y ago
It would be lucky for me if you were right, because there's a name I've fallen in love with and want to use for an open-source project that is roughly as semantically distant from an existing project as "Arc the language" is from "Arc the VM thing". But the market isn't the only factor here. There are also cultural norms, which deserve respect because they encode how people ought to treat each other (or in this case, each other's work). So I worry about that.
- ibdknox 13y agoYeah, gauging your audience is a different aspect of this problem entirely. If Arc's ultimate audience is intended to be HN that's probably not a very good strategy, but if it isn't, then it doesn't really matter. You're always going to piss someone off if you pick something that isn't very obscure (or made up). Names are hard. :/
- devcpp 13y agoPlus Arc is just one syllable and sounds good. That makes it really tempting.