[sandGorgon]

How do you pronounce the name? If libreoffice is bad.. This name is absolutely impossible.

Is it captain? Is it cap+n+proto?

A lot of collaboration is verbal - people sit around and talk about stuff. I don't know if it is a fun take on an American word... But it is impossible to use in the rest of the world.

I really wish you would call it something else... Unless it is personal for you :(

[kentonv]

CAP-ən PRO-to

But "Captain Proto" is acceptable if you have trouble with the contraction.

Or you can also think of it as "Cap-and-Proto". Which is an intentional pun ("capabilities and protocols", or something).

Googling either of these will get you to the right place, so I think it gets the job done.

[nemo1618]

>Or you can also think of it as "Cap-and-Proto". Which is an intentional pun ("capabilities and protocols", or something).

I never realized that! I like the name much more now.

[sandGorgon]

Protocap maybe?

Btw, you rank in the 5th result for "protocap" on Google.

Now that's a name all of us can pronounce!

[haneefmubarak]

So yeah, in the states, we have this cereal called Cap'n Crunch that some people love. I think he was making a pun out of that.

The pronunciation would thus be "cap [the sound the letter 'n' makes] crunch".

[couchand]

Seems like a good opportunity to point out that the pun is that the RPC model is based on capabilities. Capabilities and Protobuf -> Cap. 'n' Proto. -> Cap'n Proto

[DonHopkins]

Gee, all this time I thought he was hitching his wagon to the right honorable, dapper, charismatic, articulately spoken, upstanding guru of phone phreaking culture.

[amelius]

> How do you pronounce the name?

More importantly, how do you Google for it?

[dekhn]

It's pronounced "cap enn proto". Cap'n is a contraction, you just leave sounds out of the fully expanded word.

you can search for cap'n proto in any number of ways, including its literal name [ cap'n proto ] or [ capn proto ] or [ captain proto ].

[hendzen]

At $dayjob we use capnproto as our primary interchange format. I google for 'capnp'.