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I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools

It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?

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Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches.

Java and Ruby were created in 1995.

Lua in 1993.

Python in 1991.

C in 1972.

Lisp in 1960.


Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020

So the "trend* is that everyone didn't figure out the arbitrary deadline you came up with on when everyone should stop using regular words?



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