[lucasmullens]

It’s a Google naming convention. Internationalization (i18n) and accessibility (a11y) are the main two you’ll see.

[CharlesW]

> It’s a Google naming convention.

i18n was coined by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s or 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_local...

https://www.accessibility.com/glossary/a11y claims that this was initially a joke, which explains a lot.

[jhardy54]

Also Kubernetes (k8s).

See-also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

[lyu07282]

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