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0 pointsbangaladore1y ago0 comments

And why exactly would a name change be needed later?

Names are just names, many people have the same names, and projects can too.

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aaplok1y ago· 2 in thread

Plenty of people have the same name, but if you call your child Brad Pitt, it will be interpreted as a reference to the famous guy bearing that name, and nobody will believe it is a coincidence.

Lynx doesn't have a large user base (I think) but it is installed by default on many linux distros. Having to install two programs with the same name is a pain which is only resolved by renaming one of them (at the distro or the user level).

bangaladoreOP1y ago

Bit misleading. The analogy is closer to naming your child "Genevieve" when another Genevieve exists in the school. Lynx is a fairly common and well understood word.

> Lynx doesn't have a large user base (I think) but it is installed by default on many linux distros. Having to install two programs with the same name is a pain which is only resolved by renaming one of them (at the distro or the user level).

This is a fault of the distros. At some point keeping niche software will cause issues and conflicts.

aaplok1y ago

> This is a fault of the distros. At some point keeping niche software will cause issues and conflicts.

I am not sure I agree with this argument. This gives a vibe of "make place for me, away with the old guard!"

What if someone called their program "vi" with the argument that noone uses vi anymore?

Besides, who decides what is niche and what isn't? Is a program like lynx which offers better accessibility features than mainstream browsers not worth distributing because it's niche?

Blaming the distros for already having software named like what you decide to call yours isn't terribly cooperative.

Figurative "you" of course, not meaning OP here.

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giancarlostoro1y ago· 1 in thread

Every Go developer knows how awful a bad name can be. Just try to google anything Go related, you need to type "golang" instead.

reactordev1y ago

A go developer doesn’t Google go, they go to pkg.go.dev to get go’ing.

michaelmior1y ago

Generally agreed. I think unique names for projects are nice, but unless the projects have very similar goals, I think having the same name isn't really a big deal.

nailer1y ago

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