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I love this project. I've been a sponsor on GitHub since late last year. But for the love of... please pick a different name. Whatever reasons companies/teams
by mgdev 1y ago
I love this project. I've been a sponsor on GitHub since late last year.
But for the love of... please pick a different name.
Whatever reasons companies/teams will have for not letting someone use Jank at work, don't let the name be one of them.
- onionisafruit 1y agoWhat's the demonym for Jank devs? Janker?
- dxdm 1y agoJankee seems like a perfectly janky demonym.
- ForgotMyUUID 1y agoThe cute form would be Jankiye
- Jeaye 1y agoStill deciding. Maybe jankster.
- DetroitThrow 1y agoJankobite? Ehhh I love this project, and frankly I can't wait until I see Zig code stitched into and interoperating in a lisp via C transpilation, but I really do agree with the top commenter if you can't get Clojure trademark approval. Anyways, keep up the amazing work, I wish I could have seen your janky talk at Strangeloop on another timeline.
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- onionisafruit 1y agoI suppose jank-yanker is off the table.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoWhen there's a book, whoever does the illustrations should be a jankee doodle. ... Right, I'll show myself out.
- saghm 1y agoIt can get adapted to a Broadway musical and named Damn Jankees
- magicalhippo 1y agoJankobian?
- eduction 1y agoYes but pronounced in the Nordic and Central European fashion (“yanker”)
- replwoacause 1y agoJankoffs /s
- gkhartman 1y agoJankbroni
- didibus 1y agoYou're in luck ;) https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-04-01-jank-has-been-renamed/ https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-04-01-jank-has-been-renamed/
- alanbernstein 1y agoThe "one letter danger" section is hilarious, but did you try to find any examples with a one-vowel difference?
- bee_rider 1y agoGrody
- intalentive 1y agoWhat's the objection to the name? I don't get it.
- hotpocket777 1y agoHas negative connotations https://fluentslang.com/jank-meaning/ https://fluentslang.com/jank-meaning/
- remram 1y agoKind of like the name "Slack", which also keeps its product from being uses in enterprise settings? /s
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoor "Git", which is a straight insult.
- mgdev 1y agoYes, when you have the notoriety, distribution, and reputation-for-insults that Linus does, you can get away with things like that, because you're selling into a culture that already understands the "joke".
- mgdev 1y agoMy company had what was at the time one of the largest Slack enterprise contracts. You have no idea what internal corporate battles we had to face to get our higher-ups to take us seriously at every stage of adoption, and ultimately roll it out en masse. Slack succeeded in enterprise in spite of its name, not because of it. The actual product was phenomenal, relative to alternatives.
- an_aparallel 1y agoJanky - slang for something shit, crsp, cobbled together haphazardly...?
- fud101 1y agoI love the name Jank. I would use it just for the name alone.
- globular-toast 1y agoI worked for a while in a big traditional corporation. My team was a bit like a little enclave inside the larger organisation. They knew us because we had our top shirt buttons undone and wore brown shoes instead of black. When we interacted with the traditional suits the worst we got were chuckles and eye rolls as we said names like "Python", "GIMP" and "Cockroach" instead of the things they knew about like SAS and Oracle. We never met any resistance due to naming or anything like that. But I still ended up leaving before too long because it was too difficult and slow to make real change and progress. So if you work for somewhere even worse than that, just leave!
- mgdev 1y agoI know a little about getting large companies to use unknown and "risky" tech. I've done it a number of times (including one I'm especially proud[0] of, and that is relevant given the Clojure connection), and built more than one billion-dollar product doing so. Names have incredible power, positive or negative, when something is in its infancy. At the start, when it's just you, and maybe one other person, and maybe one more than that... and your entire effort is just a wisp of what it could one day be, all it takes is some random fly-by-night architect (or even project manager) walking by, hearing the name, and saying, "No way am I letting something called jank touch this project," and shutting it down. The ol' swoop-and-poop, but for incredibly understandable reasons: corporate drones are superstitious. Now... if, as a matter of culture building, you're intentionally leaning into the "jank" name, that's different. Because names have incredible power. So if you're cobbling together a cadre of crack hackers, "jank" might be exactly what you need to telegraph exactly the ethos you want to manifest. But if you're just looking for a memorable name to slap on something you hope will actually get traction in any production capacity, I'd just ask that Jeaye consider if the potential benefits outweigh the risks. [0]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-cloud-choosing-lisp-because-nobody-told-me-i-mason-browne/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-cloud-choosing-lisp-...
- Capricorn2481 1y agoWhat you're describing is absolutely true, and I've seen it, but I agree with the commenter that it's a good litmus test for shit organizations. I have learned that it doesn't matter if the name is changed to something better, I will still be working for people that think with their ass, and therefore, half my life will be annoying. Rust also has negative connotations, arguably worse connotations. Seems to do fine, and I wouldn't want it renamed because a PM is on a power trip. > but for incredibly understandable reasons: corporate drones are superstitious Understandable in the sense that I get why a child would do this, not an adult who is supposed to know what they're managing. Unfortunately, the business world pretends "Project Manager" can be slotted into any domain. Now my days are spent correcting the AI notetaker of a guy who is paid 6 figures.