- Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.
Re:What would you name a new programming language?
by LeonardoTolstoy on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:04AM
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Tolstoy after my old dog. But also because I think a good language name should be able to be iterated on. E.g. C can become D or E or F. Java can be Mocha or Cappuccino. Etc.
With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.
Re:What would you name a new programming language?
by ModernMech on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:47AM
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"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language." - Donald Knuth
Re:What would you name a new programming language?
by recursivecaveat on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:10PM
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Just remember the "rules of making things findable on the internet": no special characters (ascii letters only), and unique enough to be one of the top results when googled unqualified. Otherwise half of the people will start calling it "csharp" instead of C# or "golang" instead of go.
I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.
Re:What would you name a new programming language?
by scheintag on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:12PM
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Didn't chatGPT come out around the time Oumuamua made its appearance? All the rendered images of Oumuamua make the asteroid appear like a GiantPetrifiedTurd, no doubt expelled by a GIANT ancient alien. This makes the acronym portion of AI technology become Chat Giant Petrified Turd, a perfect analogy for the bad odor attached to human conversing mouths. So common sense dictates that a good programming language name could be Fee-C.
Xor, XORY
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These are all excellent names: C, C++, Rust, Ada, Julia, Shell, Bash, etc.
Wholeheartedly agree. what about something like Sage? B? You/U? Manifest?
- Single-letter names are mostly taken (e.g., B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)
- Focus on one key feature your language does better than others. Low-level languages are trending; high-level application languages are crowded. For example, if you could make assembly-style code user-friendly, that could be a strong niche.
With my new language Tolstoy you'd be able to have a little family of languages all named after classic authors. Tolstoy, Dickens, Melville etc. Plus my dog Tolstoy was the best dog ever so bonus for everyone as well.
Zone = Zero Overhead Neural Enhancement
I'm partial to looking at non-english words because they frequently have these properties and there's basically an unlimited number to choose from.
* WINS - white space is not syntax
* SNAP - source for network application protocol
* NSFW - node-derived structure for functions and workflow
Taken: https://blog.darklang.com