[trafficlight]

I really hate the naming trend over the past 10-15 years of using common words for projects.

I can't really search for Espresso, or Jupiter, or Andromeda without additional qualifiers that I may not know yet.

[komali2]

Heh, that for me culminated when windows released a ubuntu subsystem.

The names in order of popularity when it was originally announced (now they push for WSL)

1. Bash for Ubuntu on Windows

2. Windows Bash Shell

3. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Trying googling WSL - it's world surf league. Windows Bash Shell is impossible, so is Bash for Ubuntu on Windows. It's getting better as more and more articles are being written, but god almighty. I wouldn't be surprised if google is lending a helping hand with searches for WSL stuff.

[milcron]

And the 3rd name is backwards. It ought to be called 'Linux Subsystem for Windows'.

[Swizec]

It's a filter bubble issue. When I first started Ruby, it had been popular for 10+ years already. Many articles.

Despite that, it was still impossible to search for. Look for Ruby, get gemstones. Look for gem, get even more gemstones. Eventually Google figured it out and now it's almost impossible to search for gemstones. If I search for gem almost all search results are about Ruby things. Same when searching for Ruby.

Even "rails" now returns almost only Ruby on Rails stuff.

[userbinator]

Indeed, it would've been far better if they called it WinBuntu Bash or some other similarly distinctive name.

...then again, WINE isn't exactly unique either.

[skrebbel]

The internal name is lxss. I'm sad they didnt make that the default because it's very googlable.

That said WSL tends to work if you pair it with whatever your issue is.

IMO the most ridiculous name in this whole story is their github repo, Microsoft/BashOnWindows. I mean, bash has worked fine on Windows for decades, and it doesn't require an entire subsystem at all :-) WSL isn't half bad compared to that.

[AznHisoka]

Also when did EmcaScript conveniently became ES?

when i see someone mention ES6, I think its elasticserch but its not

[adrianratnapala]

To me it seems a return to the an older tradition, of names being names rather than descriptions (which inevitably fail to describe).

Using common words for names is also ancient and inevitable. In the modern age there is a practical argument against it -- as made up nonsense is more googlable. But people making up names don't really care about that in any visceral way.

[captainlego]

While your original point is valid, I did get decent results with "Google Espresso", "Google Jupiter Network", and "Google Andromeda Network". Though, in today's world, your Google results may look vastly different from mine.

[TeMPOraL]

I hate it too.

Especially if they take something with a somewhat awesome name. It waters the meaning down. My go-to example is Terraform, a glorified configuration manager that has absolutely nothing to do with the process of terraforming.