Edit: as someone noted in a siblings comment, it's also make harder to help people. I had a hard time making someone install "Signal" at a stressing time because that's just a normal word in French.
I think we should rely less on global namespaces. DNS was designed in a way that specifically allows for the same name to mean different things for different people. I should be able to use my first name as a domain name if I want. Other people should also be able to use their first name if they want. Other people still should be able to use whatever domain they want to disambiguate between the two. This is a feature of all high level programming languages within a rounding error.
> it's hard to search for
It was the first result for me on Kagi when I searched "video lang". I also tested Google and DDG and unfortunately it didn't even make the first page. I wonder why Kagi was able to surface it, but not the other two.
Either way, I recommend using search engines for discovery rather than recall, and you've already discovered this through other means. For recall, save a link to it. I personally use Org Roam for capture and recall.
> I had a hard time making someone install "Signal" at a stressing time because that's just a normal word in French.
The English word comes from the French word[0], but as an English speaker at least, the name makes a lot of sense to me. Particularly, it is a descriptive name that to me doesn't feel super generic like video lang.
Every OS has a "Calculator" or something like "Notes", these are reasonable names. Just like you have Google/Apple "Maps" or "Calendar". It's standard to use such naming for apps within a branded suite.
wait till you hear about iPadOS
The idea for calling it Video originated from it just being a library in Racket for editing videos. The name `video` fit the trend for packages in Racket at the time:
* `pict` - was an existing library for making pictures * `slideshow` - was an existing library for making slideshows * `math` - was an existing library for...well..math (beyond what the language natively provided) * `web-server` - was an existing library for making webservers.
You get the idea, extending it:
* `video` - was a new (and thus far only in Racket) library for making videos. (note the lower case `v`)
Unfortunately video grew far beyond what I expected it to (yes still small, but I honestly expected to be the only user ever, rather then one of a dozen or so users). Unfortunately as mentioned in previous comments, I suck at naming things. But also unfortunately, no one else offered another name. So video just sort of...stuck. I eventually tacked `Lang` onto the end of it, and made the initial `V` uppercase in a desperate attempt to give it a slightly more unique name. But then that became too close to videolan...which...sigh...did I mention I fucking suck at naming things?