[dribnet]

Sad to see you downvoted. Apparently responsible naming is a valid HN topic only when the library has titillating name with gender bias like upskirt [1] or pantyshot [2].

Maybe a better name would be pigfucker.js so as to more equitably offend everyone. But that's probably not necessary since I bet bacon.js was named after Francis Bacon anyway - right nullzzz? :-)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2729320

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2748669

[nullzzz]

Choosing a name is hard if you consider coolness, pronounceableness, googleableness, politically-correctness and so on. Also at the time I was choosing a name for a hobby project, not an Enterprise Framework. Feel free to make a veggie fork :)

[msutherl]

Good point about Francis Bacon – that didn't occur to me and, for my own uses, I might be able to drive out the mental associations by fixating on Sir Francis.