alt Hacker NewsThe name Phoenix is overused. There is an Elixir framework called Phoenix. I think I also heard of other projects with that same name before.
It's a bit like the name 'Apollo'; besides the moon landing project, I know like 2 dev projects called that and also there is a sales SaaS platform with that name.
Surely people should run a search first before choosing a name...
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Better not ask them to think outside the box or they'll come up with something like fushichou.
Firefox tried to use it and was sued for trademark infringement. wxPython also has a Phoenix project. It's definitely a catchy, but overused, name.
Phoenix in the Elixir ecosystem is probably one of the less confusing name uses. Under that stack you get such clear library framework names as: bandit, cowboy, thousand island, and ranch. As well as mint and finch. When not riffing off of previous project names with off axis alternate names, it’s always some sort of ExThing sharing space with at least 3 other varieties of the same (e.g. ThingEx, Thingx, and ExaThing), and you're left guessing which one may have emerged as a conventional standard.
From the ashes of some previous project is born some new project.
It's symbolic.
I remember people naming new software projects this back in the 1980s for the same reason.