Why a non Google friendly product name?

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Nosferatu, it has all the elegance and beauty that encompasses the languagešŸ˜€

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:joy: love it

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As my handle is Nosferican, I approve of Nosferatuā€¦ I have been teased at work because I am always with Julia and someone asks and they tell them is my gf and then naā€™ the languageā€¦

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Whenever I look for code explicitly, I always try to append the search with github This way you more or less only find repositories in your search

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Yes to me that is also the most unfortunate side effect - all the way from my wife complaining that in yet another weekend Iā€™ve spent more time with Julia than with her, or colleagues asking me why I have a sticker with the name of my PhD student on my laptopā€¦

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Not my problem, since my wife shares the name with this beautiful language. I wonā€™t forget that question mark on my advisorā€™s face, however, when I said ā€œI canā€™t build juliaā€ in answer to his question ā€œhowā€™s the project goingā€.

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Incidentally, where can one get stickers? Possibly in Europe, to avoid the whole shipping-customs hassle.

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I got mine from pkofod. Otherwise apparently the approach is to email Viral and Jeff directly :open_mouth: Slack

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I asked a colleague from a different institution whoā€™d expressed interest in the language ā€œare you making any headway with Julia?ā€ and his jaw dropped, but then he stuttered ā€œeh, actually, yesā€. It turned out that a few days before heā€™d asked his girlfriend, named Julia, to marry him. It took like 5-10 full minutes before we realized the mistake.

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Itā€™s a great name for a programming language.

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Avik was kind enough to send some over to me from London.

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I still have quite a few, I could send you some @Tamas_Papp .

For what itā€™s worth, I like the name. As someone mentioned above, youā€™d get a lot of facebook and linkedin hits for Julia Langā€™s 2-3 years ago, but that is mostly gone now.

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I think the premise of the question is invalid: with the correct search terms, it is easy to make most of the returned results about Julia. Some quick exploration confirms this (relevant hits/total, totals vary because of search engine heuristics and offered images/videos I guess):

Google DuckDuckGo Bing
julia language 9/9 10/10 8/8
julia lang 6/7 7/10 7/10
fft jl 10/10 10/10 9/10

YMMV, but these are very good signal/noise ratios.

Next time please kindly take a minute to check before proposing such a major change.

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I donā€™t think anyone uses a programming language because it has a fancy name. When you have a baby, you choose its name, others donā€™t necessarily get to vote :wink:

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