[mgdev]

I love this project. I've been a sponsor on GitHub since late last year.

But for the love of... please pick a different name.

Whatever reasons companies/teams will have for not letting someone use Jank at work, don't let the name be one of them.

[didibus]

You're in luck ;)

https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-04-01-jank-has-been-renamed/

[alanbernstein]

The "one letter danger" section is hilarious, but did you try to find any examples with a one-vowel difference?

[bee_rider]

Grody

[fud101]

I love the name Jank. I would use it just for the name alone.

[onionisafruit]

What's the demonym for Jank devs? Janker?

[Jeaye]

Still deciding. Maybe jankster.

[ForgotMyUUID]

The cute form would be Jankiye

[eduction]

Yes but pronounced in the Nordic and Central European fashion (“yanker”)

[dxdm]

Jankee seems like a perfectly janky demonym.

[magicalhippo]

Jankobian?

[gkhartman]

Jankbroni

[AnimalMuppet]

When there's a book, whoever does the illustrations should be a jankee doodle.

... Right, I'll show myself out.

[replwoacause]

Jankoffs

/s

[intalentive]

What's the objection to the name? I don't get it.

[hotpocket777]

Has negative connotations

https://fluentslang.com/jank-meaning/

[an_aparallel]

Janky - slang for something shit, crsp, cobbled together haphazardly...?

[globular-toast]

I worked for a while in a big traditional corporation. My team was a bit like a little enclave inside the larger organisation. They knew us because we had our top shirt buttons undone and wore brown shoes instead of black. When we interacted with the traditional suits the worst we got were chuckles and eye rolls as we said names like "Python", "GIMP" and "Cockroach" instead of the things they knew about like SAS and Oracle. We never met any resistance due to naming or anything like that. But I still ended up leaving before too long because it was too difficult and slow to make real change and progress.

So if you work for somewhere even worse than that, just leave!

[mgdev]

I know a little about getting large companies to use unknown and "risky" tech. I've done it a number of times (including one I'm especially proud[0] of, and that is relevant given the Clojure connection), and built more than one billion-dollar product doing so.

Names have incredible power, positive or negative, when something is in its infancy.

At the start, when it's just you, and maybe one other person, and maybe one more than that... and your entire effort is just a wisp of what it could one day be, all it takes is some random fly-by-night architect (or even project manager) walking by, hearing the name, and saying, "No way am I letting something called jank touch this project," and shutting it down. The ol' swoop-and-poop, but for incredibly understandable reasons: corporate drones are superstitious.

Now... if, as a matter of culture building, you're intentionally leaning into the "jank" name, that's different. Because names have incredible power. So if you're cobbling together a cadre of crack hackers, "jank" might be exactly what you need to telegraph exactly the ethos you want to manifest.

But if you're just looking for a memorable name to slap on something you hope will actually get traction in any production capacity, I'd just ask that Jeaye consider if the potential benefits outweigh the risks.

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-cloud-choosing-lisp-...