> But more to the point, 'vulns' seems like a very unnatural abbreviation. I would go with v11n (similar to i18n).

Please no. I really don't like that convention and would rather you just type out the whole word if that's the alternative. Worse yet, for some reason you've decided to end in `n` rather than `y`.

How can you dismiss the first four letters as an "unnatural" abbreviation, and then suggest inserting digits to represent the number of characters removed as an alternative? I'm not following that logic at all.

Oh please _please_ don't. i18n is a terribly obscure term with no implicit link to the actual word. This is a place where "naming things is hard" but for big concept chose short concise terminology while letting the details get lost in the verbose verbiage. Whenever I see i18n I just weep over the fact they didn't use the term "lang", internationalization is complicated and hard to shorten due to other meaningful jargon around it but there are better options than the dumpster fire which is i18n.

> Whenever I see i18n I just weep over the fact they didn't use the term "lang"

That's a bad idea because "lang" or "language" is already dangerously overloaded. People casually use it to mean any of (actual) language, locale (language + region (+ script, maybe)), script, or any combination of the above.

Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.

> Terms like i18n and l10n are bad for a11y.

Thank you for that, I am definitely stealing that phrasing.

v11n meaning vulnerabilitn presumably ;)

I was picturing villain with an implied evil laughter.

Until now you apparently haven't been keeping a busy person typing in chat into account. Now you can. This use case isn't unique to the vuln/vulnerability abbreviation, but plenty of others. Including confusing ones like "i left you a vm" (virtual machine? where?).