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Re:Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore by philsnow on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:34PM (#20796060)
Do people sometimes come up with project names that are so good, they are compelled to implement the project?
Re:Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore by ken on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:56PM (#20796732)
It's certainly clever, but I anticipate plenty of confusion (written, spoken, typed, search engine, etc) due to the Hamming distance between "firestorm" and "firestore". I really wish people would stop trying to use overly cute names.

This is the nomenclatural equivalent of code golf. If someone bragged that they overlapped two constants to save 3 bytes, I would not consider that an improvement. Whatever happened to the belief that communication was more important than brevity?

Some teams even test their user interfaces with users. Names are part of the user interface, yet I've never heard of anyone in software testing a name.

Re:Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore by vga805 on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:40AM (#20797684)
Our engineering team has a #naming slack channel. It actually gets a pretty good amount of use and it's been pretty helpful.
Re:Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore by somada141 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:40PM (#20796086)
It really is a great name, I'd feel compelled to write it if I had come up with it.
Re:Show HN: Firestorm – An ORM for Firestore by NikkiA on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:16AM (#20798586)
It's not like they were first, and will probably have to change their name:

https://www.firestormviewer.org/