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Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by meddlepal on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:14AM (#22862688)
Absolutely terrible naming collision with another Go Unikernel project:

https://github.com/solo-io/unik

Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by TACIXAT on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:37AM (#22863282)
It is just a naming collision, not sure you need the superlative and adjective to point it out.
Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by Semaphor on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:05AM (#22863662)
isotope (the JS layout library) and isotope.js (the JS view library) are arguably a naming collision despite having slightly different names. I feel like two projects having exactly the same name can have a qualifier to their collision added.
Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by lainga on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:45AM (#22862832)
As is the idiomatic Go style
Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by xyproto on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:21AM (#22864673)
It's convention to try to avoid to use the same name as a different project of the same type, though.
Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by mapgrep on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:44AM (#22864762)
Parent is making a joke, since Go itself was a namespace collision, arguably:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)#Con...

Re:Show HN: A Go unikernel capable of running GUI programs by eyberg on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:56AM (#22866768)
Yeh. Unik is more of a unikernel orchestrator, like OPS is, versus the actual kernel itself. For the go implementation it uses gorump which we sponsored and then retired years ago in favor of Nanos our new kernel.

The naming "collision" though is so bad it really feels like a case of squatting the seo though. Outside of Nanos, Unik is the very first thing you'll find when searching for go unikernels.