| ▲ | axlee 4 days ago |
| I'd recommend changing names, nitro is already a semi-popular server engine for node.js https://nitro.build/ |
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| ▲ | nine_k 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Any well-known generic word is very likely to already have been used by a bunch of projects, some of them already prominent. By now, the best project name is a pronounceable but unique string, for ease of search engine use. Ironically, "systemd" is a good name in this regard, as are "runit" or even "s6". |
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| ▲ | lrvick 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I use tiny init systems regularly in AWS Nitro Enclaves. Having the enclave and init system both named nitro is not ideal. | | | |
| ▲ | Y_Y 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Any well-known generic word is very likely to already have been used by a bunch of projects, Are you sure? There are lots of words, and not so many projects that use words like these as their names. Of the 118179 packages I see on this Ubuntu 18.04 system I can roughly roughly ask how many have names that are dictionary (wamerican) words: comm -12 <(apt-cache dumpavail | awk -F': ' '/^Package:/{sub(/^lib/,"",$2); print $2}') /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
This gives 820 (or about 1000 if you allow uppercase). Not so scientific, but I think a reasonable starting point. | |
| ▲ | entropie 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | nitronit obviuously |
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| ▲ | mperham 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think I would have gone with nitr0. |
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| ▲ | petre 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| One of the hard things in computer science: naming things. |