Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners

Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:21AM (#33637931)

What’s with this new fashion of using feminine names for tech products? Imagine being a woman, working in an office, and hearing your first name in random contexts. I see how that could become annoying.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by rmetzler on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:28AM (#33637976)

MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and was introduced in 2009. Is this new?

Other than that, Maria is also a male name although not very common.

~50% of humans are female and if there is a „trend“ for giving female names to software, yes, please do it more.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:31AM (#33637997)

My point is, I don’t recall seeing any tech product named “John”. We shouldn’t be using first names for random products regardless of gender. People somehow assume that female first names are somehow better suited as names for some software product, than male names.

It’s new in the sense that I keep noticing them more often lately.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by sritchie on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:35AM (#33638028)

Haskell, Erlang, Pascal… Maria is a reference to Maria Montessori, whose educational philosophy inspired Maria.cloud.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:39AM (#33638064)

> Haskell, Erlang, Pascal

Those are family names, correct me if I’m wrong.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by andsoitis on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:31AM (#33638568)

Haskell and Erlang perhaps, but Pascal is both.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by o_pax on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:37AM (#33638639)

You're wrong. Haskell is named after Haskell Brooks Curry. There might be an opportunity for a new functional language named Brooks.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:44AM (#33638742)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(surname)

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by weatherlight on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:31AM (#33640285)

https://www.houseofnames.com/maria-family-crest/Italian#:~:t....

Maria is also a surname, what's your point?

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by tosh on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:36AM (#33640370)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by mathnode on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:20AM (#33638451)

John the Ripper!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Ripper

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by weatherlight on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:44AM (#33638113)

https://everything2.com/title/People+with+programming+langua...

(Spoiler: It's mostly men.)

AI Personal assistants on the other hand do seem to have feminine names or voices.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:46AM (#33638135)

Those are last names.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by weatherlight on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:13AM (#33639944)

haskell is a first name.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:37AM (#33640384)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(surname)

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by ritchiey on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:23AM (#33638487)

I imagine they’d find it no more annoying than do Frank, Bob, Doug or Russell.

In fact I might call my next project Karen. Because things can only get better for her.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by kgwxd on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:03AM (#33638984)

As a Jason, you get used to it.

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by dsnr on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:32AM (#33639370)

Good one :)

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Re:Maria: A ClojureScript coding environment for beginners by hombre_fatal on Thursday November 17, 2022 @06:28PM (#33647489)

Ships are given female names too because, apparently, they used to be dedicated to goddesses. I do think even common female names sound more majestic to me than common male names for projects whether that's because of cultural tradition or because women are still abstract mysteries to me (jk).

Fwiw, Travis CI never bothered me despite its ubiquity when I got into software dev. It's not really "random contexts". The context of whether someone is talking about me or CI is actually quite clear. It's 1000x more confusing when someone else shares your name in the office.

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