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See also the massively popular, and critical-to-rails Gem https://github.com/erikhuda/thor https://github.com/erikhuda/thor - naming is hard.
by codebeaker 11y ago
See also the massively popular, and critical-to-rails Gem https://github.com/erikhuda/thor https://github.com/erikhuda/thor - naming is hard.
- dvt 11y agoIsn't Thor a Norse god, too?
- dalke 11y agoAnd a washing machine, and a family of satellites, and a ramjet engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28disambiguation%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28disambiguation%29 . Not listed there, also a special purpose DBMS for small molecule chemistry data.
- WaxProlix 11y agoAnd they're both named after the superhero!
- nvader 11y agoNaming may or may not be hard. But the fact that two projects in hugely different contexts happened to pick the same name does not bear that out, nor does anyone confuse that ruby gem with an even more massively popular Avengers member. Perhaps if you stopped worrying about name collisions with any existing project ever, you might find naming things a little easier.