Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir

Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by ProAm on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:29PM (#19248040)

People are the worst at naming products. Why call it Mint when there is already an insanely popular Mint.com financial software. It makes Googling/searching for product relevancy near impossible. It's like try to search for Firefox on Android vs Firefox on a desktop information.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by ryeguy on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:34PM (#19248084)

No it doesn't. All you have to do is search <language> <package> and you get relevant results. Look through your library list, it's pretty common for the names to only make sense in context.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by dnautics on Monday February 25, 2019 @04:50PM (#19249798)

actually, if you need it fast, you can just duckduckgo "mint !hexpm"

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by elcritch on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:29PM (#19251775)

That’s handy!

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by dnautics on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:54PM (#19251857)

Yes sorry I should have also mentioned that it only really saves time if you have ddg as your default searchbar engine!

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by loceng on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:31PM (#19248064)

It's in the context of Elixir, so search for "mint elixir" and I'm sure it'll be quite discoverable - or searching for "mint" on an Elixir contextualized site.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by Qwertystop on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:07PM (#19248390)

"mint elixir", unsurprisingly, mostly turns up beverages and mint-flavored medicinal things.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by loceng on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:11PM (#19248419)

What search engine did you use?

On Google, the first two results for me on "mint elixir":

Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir - Elixir https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/02/25/mint-a-new-http-libr... 42 mins ago - Mint is a new low-level HTTP library that aims to provide a small and functional core that others can build on top.

GitHub - ericmj/mint: Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for ... https://github.com/ericmj/mint Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 - ericmj/mint.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by bryanrasmussen on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:17PM (#19249020)

For me opening up Microsoft Edge which I never use for anything not testing related and hence Google does not know me on that browser and does not guess I want programming stuff Mint Elixir came up #5.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by dx87 on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:06PM (#19248906)

For me on Google, "mint elixir" has the GitHub repo as the first result, then a bunch of links for "How to install Elixir on Linux Mint". DDG gives a software company called "Elixir Mint" as the first result, followed by links to drink recipes, and the GitHub repo is down near the bottom.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by chooseaname on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:42PM (#19248155)

Not to mention Linux Mint.

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Re:Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir by wryun on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @04:59AM (#19253141)

At least it's definitely not TOS.

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