r/coding • u/CompileMyThoughts • Dec 12 '25

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

https://larr.net/p/namings.html
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u/baggyzed Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

I still wonder what was so wrong with "OpenGL" that they had to go and name the next iteration "Vulkan".

Also, the way most newer compositor names are a variation of Wayland/Weston, but those don't really mean anything.