edbentley / miniscript-rfc

An RFC that proposes an idea for a new open source programming language called MiniScript
https://miniscript-demo.netlify.app
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Rename MiniScript #1

Open edbentley opened 3 years ago

edbentley commented 3 years ago

If you search for "miniscript" there are already existing languages that could make this hard to find or confusing.

I'm very open to renaming MiniScript to something else, and welcome suggestions here. I'll leave some time before making any change, and will gauge popularity of a name based on the number of 👍 or 👎 of the suggestions.

edbentley commented 3 years ago

I'll go first: MiniScript.

I chose it because I liked having a ____Script name to associate it with JS. I also like the "Mini" prefix since it not only describes being a smaller subset of JS, it looks more friendly and approachable (like how I felt when I saw the Go mascot).

coolaj86 commented 3 years ago

Edit: here's a few good ones

Just trying random prefixes that aren't nabbed already on google to get the juices flowing: