Software Naming Discussions
Users debate the origins, appropriateness, and alternatives for names of software tools, programming languages, and projects, often critiquing confusing or off-putting choices like GIMP or similarities to existing tools.
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Is the name a riff on a similar google-internal tool?
That is an interesting name for a tool. wonder where it came from?
Cool! Does the name derive from pair-programming, is that the main intent?
Good thing we don't pick our tech stack just based on how the name sounds... right?
I guess there wasn't a better name, maybe even one which wasn't associated with some other software for decades...
I'm continuously surprised it doesn't get renamed to GNU Imp.
Haha agreed, the name is very off-putting. I was sort of expecting an explainer and a clever quip for the name in the GitHub documentation, but didn't find one.There are definitely many other names for an "all-purpose" tool.
I like the name. It's the SDK that gives the name meaning anyway.
I didn't mean to be pedantic. Any name that refers to the software is fine.
Maybe not an awesome name for a new tool in the infra/devops/cloud space