[didibus]

Slight tangent, but I much preferred the trend of language names being letters, gemstones, animals or coffee related, and something about programming languages names being commonly used woman names makes me uneasy. I don't know why, there's some sort of uncanny valley about it, some kind of scifi-esque AI-love cringe to it reminding me of the movie Her and the likes. I'm not dismissing the technical merits, and Julie sounds interesting, and I'm quite fond of Julia and Janet langs, but I've noticed this name trend and there's something interesting about this meta-social trend of using woman names for them.

[gmfawcett]

The project maintainer has stated below that it's "jolie" (French for "pretty"), not Jolie the actress.

[didibus]

I'm a french speaker, Jolie is a common woman name, yes it also means pretty, but that's like people called Lily or Prince. The logo is also a woman's eye + brow.

It's possible the author was going for the meaning of pretty, but there still seem to be a strong personification happening with emphasis on it being a beautiful woman, and it's that aspect that unease me.

Again, you can call your language however you choose too, and I'm not going to judge it by its name, but I still personally find this womanization trend in programming language names a bit weird.

I'll probably get used to it, though it does feel like an interesting meta-psycholigical subject as well. Where are the programming languages named John, Richard and David? Why are we calling a language by a person's name? Why are their logo becoming human facial features?

[Zababa]

> Jolie is a common woman name

Where? It's not even on the INSEE tool https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3532172, according to their "Fichier des prénoms" (https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2540004), there are currently 39 persons named "Jolie" in France. This is not to dismiss the rest of what you said, I'm just curious as to where "Jolie" is a common woman name.

[didibus]

Well, I had never really researched this, but I'm from Quebec, and I know 3 Jolie. Maybe it's more prevalent there, or maybe I happen to know a coincidentally large number of them. If the latter, I guess that is a good learning experience for how your own life experience can easily bias you in your opinions and understanding of some things.

[Zababa]

I was curious about this so I searched around a bit and found the data for girls names from 1980 to 2020 [1]. I've found 269 people with first name containing "Jolie". Then I took the census data [1], found that 45% of Quebec females are under 40. So extrapolating from the first number, I find 524 females with Jolie in their names in Quebec.

That means 1 in 7915 female in Quebec has Jolie in her name, compared to around 1 in 1 million for France. That explains (in part) how you know 3 and I don't know any I think.

[1]: https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/banque-de-pre...

[2]: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/pr...

[didibus]

Interesting, thanks for looking it up. I quite like the name personally, though it still seems I have some chance in my sample, since I do not know 7915 woman, so to know 3 Jolie still seems a little lucky.

[The_Amp_Walrus]

Intra-male competition

Telling that Jenkins is a servant

[CRConrad]

Not that any of that really applies here: "Jolie" isn't[1] a woman's name. Maybe you're thinking of actress Angelina Jolie, whose surname it is? As such, it can apply just as much to men.

Also, in French it's a regular adjective that means ~"cute".

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[1] EDIT: Except, according to comments close by, in Quebec.