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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by ketralnis on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:09PM (#33758457)
It's not the name in the neovim case, it's the tagline "literally the future of vim" when vim was still being actively developed by a different group. It is IMO immoral for me to start a site called "Hacker News 2.0: The successor to Hacker News" and start telling people that I'm the next version of it and that's how that comes off to me.
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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by flumpcakes on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:15PM (#33758504)
I understand your point, it does seem quite... rude? It reminds me of google calling their programming language "Go" while there was an existing language with that name already.
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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by CameronNemo on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:27AM (#33760881)
They didn't call it Vim 9, though. It would be more like if you had a forum called NeoHacker News. Similar to "Hacker News"? Yes. More alliterative? Also yes. Misleading? Potentially not, with the right communication.
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