It really is! It was quite fun researching this and finding out that the one of the key reasons that some of the names were chosen (Clojure and Elixir in particular) was simply because the name and its domain were free!
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Interesting! This is exactly the path I ended up often going down - the pragmatism of a single word that is still available. This seems like a wider strategy in tech. I listened to a podcast with Patrick Collinson where he said that the way they come up with Stripe as company name was basically searching dictionary and domains for a single word that is still cheap to buy.
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It really is! It was quite fun researching this and finding out that the one of the key reasons that some of the names were chosen (Clojure and Elixir in particular) was simply because the name and its domain were free!
Interesting! This is exactly the path I ended up often going down - the pragmatism of a single word that is still available. This seems like a wider strategy in tech. I listened to a podcast with Patrick Collinson where he said that the way they come up with Stripe as company name was basically searching dictionary and domains for a single word that is still cheap to buy.