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Open-sourcing is/was the perfect time to change it. Otherwise it might be even more painful if a name change is needed later.
And why exactly would a name change be needed later? Names are just names, many people have the same names, and projects can too.
Or could someone ELI5 / TL;DR? The whole blog post is basically saying how good Lynx is and what problem it solves without telling me much technical details.
Are we intentionally reusing project names now? Lynx [1] is a fairly popular tui browser. I guess it doesn’t support ssl or tls, so is now obsolete? W3M [2] is a decent tui alternative that does. Or if you use kitty, awrit [3] is nice, with images and mouse support (it renders chromium in a terminal window) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) [2] https://w3m.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://github.com/…
The Lynx project was originally named independently without thinking this far ahead. Since so much code and so many users already rely on it, we decided to stick with the name rather than change it just for open-sourcing.
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Plenty of people have the same name, but if you call your child Brad Pitt, it will be interpreted as a reference to the famous guy bearing that name, and nobody will believe it is a coincidence. Lynx doesn't have a large user base (I think) but it is installed by default on many linux distros. Having to install two programs with the same name is a pain which is only resolved by renaming one of them (at the distro or…
Bit misleading. The analogy is closer to naming your child "Genevieve" when another Genevieve exists in the school. Lynx is a fairly common and well understood word. > Lynx doesn't have a large user base (I think) but it is installed by default on many linux distros. Having to install two programs with the same name is a pain which is only resolved by renaming one of them (at the distro or the user level). This is a…
I am not sure I agree with this argument. This gives a vibe of "make place for me, away with the old guard!"
What if someone called their program "vi" with the argument that noone uses vi anymore?
Besides, who decides what is niche and what isn't? Is a program like lynx which offers better accessibility features than mainstream browsers not worth distributing because it's niche?
Blaming the distros for already having software named like what you decide to call yours isn't terribly cooperative.
Figurative "you" of course, not meaning OP here.
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The Lynx project was originally named independently without thinking this far ahead. Since so much code and so many users already rely on it, we decided to stick with the name rather than change it just for open-sourcing.
Open-sourcing is/was the perfect time to change it. Otherwise it might be even more painful if a name change is needed later.
Would be interested in using this if not for the lack of LLM support. Can you also explain what the advantages are over React Native?
> Would be interested in using this if not for the lack of LLM support. I'm not even in the anti-LLM crowd, but that sentence made me shake my head in disgust
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And why exactly would a name change be needed later? Names are just names, many people have the same names, and projects can too.
Every Go developer knows how awful a bad name can be. Just try to google anything Go related, you need to type "golang" instead.
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https://lynxjs.org/ doesn't scroll smoothly.
What browser/platform? Flutter apps don't scroll at 30/60fps on my aging Mate 20 Pro, but that website is fine for me in Chrome.