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waterTanukiyesterday at 11:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

We need more creative names for rust packages because this is going to cause confusion

There's already Oxide computers https://oxide.computer/ and Oxc the JS linter/formatter https://oxc.rs/.


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ljmtoday at 10:20 AM

Ruby was forward thinking enough to give libraries bizarre pet names that had no obvious connection to their functionality.

Pundit, Capybara, Bullet, Grape, Faraday...

mr_Fatalystyesterday at 11:13 PM

Yeah, we're running out of ways to spell oxide (^_^)