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The name is not at all unfortunate. But pandering to anti-intellectualism is extremely unfortunate. Irrational fear of new terminology is a major stumbling blo
by mattgreenrocks 12y ago
The name is not at all unfortunate.
But pandering to anti-intellectualism is extremely unfortunate. Irrational fear of new terminology is a major stumbling block to progress. There is a wealth of new things to discover that will require new modes of thinking, new concepts, and new terminology.
If devs wish to remain stagnant in their knowledge and their practice, that's fine. But in doing so, there's no reason why they should offer their opinions on matters they've chosen to ignore. I hope they'd have the intellectual humility to simply listen, rather than contribute noise to the discussion.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoTo anyone with hardware design experience transducers are hardware sensors. That meaning has been around for >60 years now. So a lot of people are going to see 'transducers.js' and think this is a library for interfacing I2S or 1-wire sensors to Node, or something. That's not anti-intellectualism, it's pointing out that the word already has an established meaning among engineers, and trying to redefine it is going to mislead a lot of people about what this library is trying to do.