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by gautamcgoel 376 days ago
Cool work! Just out of curiosity, what made you pick the name nature?
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“Tao follows nature” (道法自然) is a phrase from classical Chinese philosophy, and it is the design philosophy behind the nature programming language. It can be understood as being natural and intuitive. I hope that nature can build upon Go's ‘less is more’ philosophy and achieve ‘Tao follows nature.’

Unfortunately, nature is not SEO-friendly, so the name has received a lot of criticism. Therefore, I am considering changing it to a name that starts with ”na”

"Tao" might be more search-engine friendly than "nature".