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by waterTanuki 98 days ago
We need more creative names for rust packages because this is going to cause confusion

There's already Oxide computers https://oxide.computer/ and Oxc the JS linter/formatter https://oxc.rs/.

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Ruby was forward thinking enough to give libraries bizarre pet names that had no obvious connection to their functionality.

Pundit, Capybara, Bullet, Grape, Faraday...

Yeah, we're running out of ways to spell oxide (^_^)