[gogopuppygogo]

Cockroach is the worst brand for a database ever.

Even Croach would be a massive branding improvement.

This is similar to how gimp is a terrible brand.

[zaius]

It’s no coincidence - the names for Cockroach and GIMP were coined by the same person https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Kimball_(computer_pr...

[fshr]

Well that explains a lot. Imagine the success of all his work had it had better branding.

[toomanybeersies]

Let's add Git and Kafka to that list.

[meesterdude]

I mean... the WORST? For me Mongo takes the cake, but oracle is up there too.

[zdragnar]

Really? Oracle actually makes a lot of sense to me for a database name (in the 'source of truth' sense, not in the prophet sense).

Mongo, on the other hand, has definitely always had the racist/ablist slur as the first connotation for me.

[whatshisface]

I've learned almost all the slurs I know from comments or media sources complaining about them. It's the only place they're used in polite society.

[zdragnar]

It isn't really a surprise in this case since both ethnic Mongolians and those with Downs syndrome are not in many Americans' social circles.

"Almost all" does sound like a bit of a surprise, but thinking back on it the only one I know for a fact I heard for the first time outside of a corrective context was my elder uncles friends who enjoyed self-depreciating jokes, usually with slurs for eastern Europeans in them. I first heard those as a child and only realized years later they were offensive. Most others, I think, I honestly have no idea when i was first exposed to them.

[tgv]

Mongo and mongol don't have a close relationship: the final syllable is entirely different.

[whatshisface]

It's implied that someone is going around calling people with Down's syndrome "Mongos." "Mongol" is an actual non-offensive[0] word which means, unsurprisingly, someone who can trace their lineage back to the area around Mongolia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongols (If it's used descriptively on Wikipedia, it's probably not considered offensive.)

[jasonwatkinspdx]

This says more about you than the baseline.

[robertfw]

Then perhaps count yourself lucky to not have had some of these used against you.

[jjazwiecki]

I always thought it was a reference to valuable stuff picked from trash, which I understood to be slang from sanitation workers, but apparently that's local to the NYC area.

[Traubenfuchs]

I don't know about other languages, but in German "Mongo" is pretty much a forbidden word as it is derogative descriptor for people with down syndrom and other visible defects, especially movement defects.

[goatinaboat]

I don't know about other languages, but in German "Mongo" is pretty much a forbidden word as it is derogative descriptor for people with down syndrom and other visible defects, especially movement defects.

In the UK that would be "mong", for us Mongo is the planet Ming The Merciless is from.