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And what's the deal with giving these projects meaningless names? Gulp and browserify mean nothing to me, whereas gcc and make are basically self-documenting. Can we please stop giving these projects trendy names and instead name them by what problem they are designed to solved?

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Browserify, as far as I can tell, packages up server-side code so it can be used in the browser. Seems pretty self-descriptive to me.

And yes, gulp is a bad name, but giving opaque names is not exactly ‘trendy’. The Unix tradition is probably worse: grep, awk, sed, less etcetera…

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