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0 pointsdmitriid3y ago0 comments

> you're going to have a list of hard-to-distinguish projects like:

What's hard to distinguish? These are projects that do something with CSS. If you don't need css, you skip them. If you need a polyfill, you only look at polyfill ones to see what you need.

Now, let's imagine your list is "creatively" named like

- shelob

- arcana

- custard

- escalope

- virtuocsso

- jester-css

- etc.

Ah yes, this is so much easier to distinguish, isn't it?

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Vinnl3y ago· 2 in thread

They're hard to distinguish in the sense that a colleague might ask something like "hey can you publish a new version of css-script-min" and you accidentally publish a new version of "css-min" or "css-inline-min" or whatever instead.

dmitriidOP3y ago

That's such a minuscule problem compared to trying to figure out which of the insane names is the one you need.

woojoo6663y ago

A name is usually not enough to determine which library/framework is best for you. This is the _illusion of transparency_ that the author talks about. How would you rename React and Angular such that developers could tell at a glance which one to use? If it's going to require further investigation from the user's part, better to give the project an opaque name to make it clear that further investigation is necessary.

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