[thiht]

This is indeed an abbreviation, but it doesn’t convey meaning. At this point ML is just the name of the thing, it could not expand to anything and still convey the same meaning.

If you don’t know ML, knowing what it stands for won’t help you. It’s like JS, either you know what JS is or you don’t. It’s not about what it means, it’s about what it is.

[BlueTemplar]

You are forgetting that looking up abbreviations of 3 characters is already very hard, and it becomes almost impossible for the 2 character ones.

[thiht]

It’s usually not when there’s some context.

> A large part of why many people love Rust is that it's the first time they've used an ML family language.

You wouldn’t search "ML" but "ML family language".

Or copy paste the whole thing and ask ChatGPT what ML means in this context.