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> Jypiter

I feel someone's pain here.

"You've spelt Jupiter incorrectly, it should have a y"

My charitable reading is that “y” roughly corresponds to “oo” in some languages, so there’s a world in which this spelling makes sense.

But yeah it’s Jupyter. Like Jupiter but for Python.

Edit: Somehow they get Jupyter from Julia, Python, R

Programmers shouldn't be allowed to name things. I know it predated the GNU Project, but it just normalized bad naming as a goal. Maybe kids can stop learning cursive and switch to the how-to name things class!

Lets be honest here: The name is FUCKING IDIOTIC. Every time I write "jupwhatever notebook" I want to ... break things.

I find it relatively easy to remember, while also helping narrow down search results from most search engines.

right, I kinda wish more languages did things like this. Every JS framework or library has a cute name but then realizes they need to always say the ".js" if they ever want any SEO results (looking at you Next. Node isn't much better either tho).

It might be silly, but if we just added some l33tspeak like n3xt or n0d3 we would actually be making out lives a lot easier. Or we could just spend like a whole extra minute to come up with something like Deno which is short and sweet and apparently unique enough to never conflict with other results

  alias nb=“jupyter notebook”

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