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by davrosthedalek 4000 days ago
Please don't name it Fuse. Yes, it's a good name, but there is already a rather well known project with that name, plus it's a common household item. You make it unnecessary hard to be found and not con-fuse-d (hah!) by users.

I speak from experience: I often have to look up errors/bugs related to root. Root as in "CERN analysis software", not the user. One of the most annoying names ever. (In that sense it's rather fitting)
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hbbio 4000 days ago
Exactly. While reading the title, I thought... what a good idea.

But what I had in mind, was to use FUSE (Filesystem in USEr space) to locally mount a webservice/API and then use C# native GUIs to do the presentation :)

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PopeOfNope 4000 days ago
That's interesting, but I'm not sure what FUSE gets you, except maybe not having to fiddle around with streaming the bytecode yourself? I do like the idea of having a compiled bytecode hosted on a server, streaming that to a local C# VM (.NET?) then having the native GUIs do the presentation. :)
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olavgg 4000 days ago
That was what I read first too.
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endlessvoid94 4000 days ago
Agreed. I read the title and thought there was some cool new FUSE C# library.
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kej 4000 days ago
It's interesting that FUSE (the file system library) has a FAQ entry about why they chose the name when there was already a ZX Spectrum emulator named Fuse. Apparently it's name collisions all the way down.
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CmonDev 4000 days ago
That's not the worst case, how about this:

https://www.terraform.io

No relation to making planets habitable whatsoever.

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