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by steviedotboston 35 days ago
It's very confusing that they use the same name as the very well known PHP package manager, composer

https://getcomposer.org/

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I dont know what it is with products names these days. Antigravity, Antimatter, Composer, Clay, Ramp, Bolt, etc.

You'd think the founders would Google for naming conflict before choosing a name.

I genuinely wonder if consulting LLMs for naming advice could be an explanation.

They certainly wouldn’t be great at coming up with new words for a product name.

Naming issues are as old as time. Apple Computer vs. Apple Records comes to mind as a popular example.