| ▲ | codetrotter 5 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A sibling comment talked about “UwU names”. Not sure exactly if they are referring to “tokio” or something else. But if it’s tokio, they might find this informative: > I enjoyed visiting Tokio (Tokyo) the city and I liked the "io" suffix and how it plays w/ Mio as well. I don't know... naming is hard so I didn't spend too much time thinking about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/d3ld9z/comment/f03lnm... From the original release announcement of tokio on r/rust on Reddit. And also to the sibling commenter, if tokio is a problematic name to you: Would either of the following names be equally problematic or not? - Chicago. Code name for Windows 95, and also the name of a city in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago - Oslo. Name of a team working on OpenStack, and also appears in their package names. Oslo is the capital of Norway. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo If yes, why? If no, also why? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | mardef 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just want to point out that location names are used for codenames because they cannot be trademarked Big tech uses them instead of wasting legal time and money having to clear a new name that's temporary or non-public. Changing the name to Tokio removes this benefit and still leaves it disconnected from its purpose. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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