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I’ve always been curious as to why Indonesia islands have been the naming convention for this sort of software for a long time.

It’s also funny because there is true irl “dark magic” for Java, Lombok and Bali.

Also surprised there isn’t much mention of Bali in general.

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Well, cos Java, while they named it for coffee, hence coffee related projects (Correto, Caffeine, and of course, all them goddamned Spring Beans) also being the name of the most densely populated island of Indonesia lead to related projects being named in an Indonesian theme like, obviously, Lombok, but Batik (an Indonesian tapestry form), Jakarta (largest city in Indonesia and on Java), IBM Semeru (the highest mountain on Java) , Apache Wayang (wayang is a traditional form of theatre in Indonesia and Malaysia), Project Sumatra etc. etc. etc.

and don't forget projects like eclipse and an internal ibm effort called sunset that should give an idea of what part of their points were.

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