Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Squonk42 1470 days ago
Given the possible confusion with Vale[1] and Vala[2], I suggest to rename the language to some new unambiguous name asap in order get more visibility.

Otherwise, it looks very promising!

[1] https://github.com/project-everest/vale [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)

3 comments

Github may show a warning when creating repo about all possible name collisions. We see this problem often. If anybody from GH is listening :)
GitHub already has a feature to check if any public GH repo has this name. They've called it search.
I don't think this is really a problem. I know Vala and I don't see a problem with confusing the two.
It's because you know Vala that you don't see the problem.
I didn't confuse it with Vala, but with Val:

https://github.com/val-lang/val