[preommr]

I usually don't like commenting on people's choices for variable names since they're usually scoped and less important than the interface. However, I'll give my two cents because I remember stuff like this being confusing when I was younger.

There's definitely a balance to be struck - one letter variable names are horrible outside of single lines (e.g. a one-line anonymous function), extremely long names are better, but still bad. I say better because it's higher in comprehensibility - which is more important - if not very readable. While it's been well documented that shorter information is easier to remember, it's important to remember that it's usually limited to brevity that still provides context. Very short names e.g. (pg for proxy generator) are bad because minds require an additional step to "unravel" the meaning.

IMO it's usually best to limit to variable names to one or two words. Something like 'proxyGenerator', for the given example. Or even 'generator' if the parent block is extremely small (e.g. 5 lines). Most readers perform word chunking such that something like 'proxyGenerator' reads as two units without the indirection that an abbreviation or unrelated symbol would require.