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327 points andsoitis | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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netdevphoenix ◴[17 Nov 25 16:22 UTC] No.45955050[source]▶
Why do programmers have so little imagination when it comes to names? It should almost never be the case that project names conflict
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__MatrixMan__ ◴[17 Nov 25 18:00 UTC] No.45956110[source]▶
Do you have a pile of projects lying around with good names? Coming up with a good one is hard and getting harder every day.
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1. netdevphoenix ◴[18 Nov 25 09:56 UTC] No.45963224[source]▶
There is no such thing as a good name. A name is good or not only in relation to the reasons why you want that name. Different teams, orgs, etc have different reasons to name systems. Traditionally, tech names have been in English or English sounding bisyllabic mostly (Game Boy, Windows, Office, Adobe, XBox) with PlayStation being unusually long for a name competing in the anglosphere. But examples like the Bard to Gemini change, Veo (Spanish), Claude (French) break the pattern, even then you still have DeepSeek, Lyria and ChatGPT.
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2. __MatrixMan__ ◴[18 Nov 25 16:00 UTC] No.45967998[source]▶
Oh I see. When you said:

> Why do programmers have so little imagination when it comes to names?

I assumed that you had a better than average method that you could share. But I guess you answered your own question:

> There is no such thing as a good name.