top | item 10798194 (no title) superfunc | 10 years ago Cool project. Small rant; can we please stop titling our libraries with the language extension as a portion? discuss order hn newest jondlove|10 years ago I like it (for otherwise generic names); it quickly shows which language the library is for, reduces name collisions, and makes Googling easier. superfunc|10 years ago That's fair, but I feel like most languages have searchable package repositories, and I'd be searching in one of those, eliminating the need for such naming. load replies (1) nikolay|10 years ago I can hande the "py" prefix or suffix (hopefully lower-cased though), but the dash is too much! jMyles|10 years ago How come? frankling_|10 years ago Who's "we"? superfunc|10 years ago I tend to see it a lot in python, go and rust as of late. load replies (1) wolfgke|10 years ago The Hacker News Community? belleandsebasti|10 years ago This is part of Python culture.That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"
jondlove|10 years ago I like it (for otherwise generic names); it quickly shows which language the library is for, reduces name collisions, and makes Googling easier. superfunc|10 years ago That's fair, but I feel like most languages have searchable package repositories, and I'd be searching in one of those, eliminating the need for such naming. load replies (1)
superfunc|10 years ago That's fair, but I feel like most languages have searchable package repositories, and I'd be searching in one of those, eliminating the need for such naming. load replies (1)
nikolay|10 years ago I can hande the "py" prefix or suffix (hopefully lower-cased though), but the dash is too much!
frankling_|10 years ago Who's "we"? superfunc|10 years ago I tend to see it a lot in python, go and rust as of late. load replies (1) wolfgke|10 years ago The Hacker News Community?
belleandsebasti|10 years ago This is part of Python culture.That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"
jondlove|10 years ago
superfunc|10 years ago
nikolay|10 years ago
jMyles|10 years ago
frankling_|10 years ago
superfunc|10 years ago
wolfgke|10 years ago
belleandsebasti|10 years ago
That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"