22 comments

  • austin-cheney an hour ago

    * DARK - directed analysis and reasoning kit

    * WINS - white space is not syntax

    * SNAP - source for network application protocol

    * NSFW - node-derived structure for functions and workflow

  • recursivecaveat 17 hours ago

    Just remember the "rules of making things findable on the internet": no special characters (ascii letters only), and unique enough to be one of the top results when googled unqualified. Otherwise half of the people will start calling it "csharp" instead of C# or "golang" instead of go.

    I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.

  • LeonardoTolstoy a day ago

    Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc.

    With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.

  • scheintag 16 hours ago

    Didn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.

  • OhMeadhbh a day ago

    I can't say what I would name a language, but I always loved "WSFN" which stands for nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language) .

    • TristanMB a day ago

      what about the following?: - B - Sage - manifest

  • ted_bunny 19 hours ago

    What is the language like? This seems an overbroad question to me.

  • VivaTechnics a day ago

    Something short, simple, fundamental, low-level and deeply techie:

    Xor, XORY

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    These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.

    • TristanMB a day ago

      >These are all excellent names

      Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?

      • VivaTechnics a day ago

        - Maybe, design your language first, then name it.

        - Single-letter names are mostly taken (e.g., B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)

        - Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.

  • codingclaws 20 hours ago

    Thinking of what to name an app or language is torturous.

  • prxtl a day ago

    Chai

    • chistev 20 hours ago

      Are you Nigerian? Lol

  • ksherlock 17 hours ago

    imp. But only if it imperatively imports the implication operator.

  • jjgreen a day ago

    LangeyMcLangeFace

  • ted_bunny 19 hours ago

    Desperanto

  • LargoLasskhyfv 18 hours ago

    Glitch = General Language Interpretation Technology Cyber Hotness.

    Zone = Zero Overhead Neural Enhancement

  • dalmo3 a day ago

    Gsus

  • l1ng0 a day ago

    Bork

  • 0xhald a day ago

    rosa

  • dileeparanawake a day ago

    Dingle3000

  • andsoitis a day ago

    Pro Lapse