SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Dear all,

here's a poll for the new name of Monkey X. We want to use that name to continue to develop that gem called Monkey for now.

http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=59458c57e4b07212ae89235d

Thanks so much for you'llur vote, it really DOES matter!

Just to clarify: The name could be Hydra for instance, don't be confused that there is only HydraGL. This could be the domain name then even though the engine itself is just Hydra.

Done

I don't like any of them - and there's no option for "none of the above"...

You can't really use "GL" for something other than (Open)GL, which I'd expect pretty much what everyone would assume "GL" was referring to.

Do you have a good suggestion? We've waited quite a while but there were no more unfortunately.

No, sorry. I don't have any other suggestions. I just know that I don't like those in that there list.

Each to their own, of course, etc... 

Quote from: Brucey on June 17, 2017, 21:16:38
I don't like any of them - and there's no option for "none of the above"...

You can't really use "GL" for something other than (Open)GL, which I'd expect pretty much what everyone would assume "GL" was referring to.

Why can't you use it? Is that trademarked or so?

Thanks Brucey anyway. We can't make it right for everyone of course. Out of curiosity, do you like "Monkey"?

Quote from: MikeHart on June 17, 2017, 21:21:18

Quote from: Brucey on June 17, 2017, 21:16:38
I don't like any of them - and there's no option for "none of the above"...

You can't really use "GL" for something other than (Open)GL, which I'd expect pretty much what everyone would assume "GL" was referring to.

Why can't you use it? Is that trademarked or so?

I would associate GL with OpenGL, not game language...

I'm with Brucey here and not keen on any of the suggestions on that list (apart from just Hydra)... still prefer to keep it simple with something like MXP or a single word name.

Check out the top programming languages (according to TIOBE) and look at their names:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Well of course we can it just call Hydra, it's actually more a domain name poll.

Quote from: Xaron on June 18, 2017, 06:28:40
Well of course we can it just call Hydra, it's actually more a domain name poll.

Well for the domain, it could be called www.hydralang.com or similar... but I've just checked and there is already a language called Hydra:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hydralang/
http://www.dworkin.nl/hydra/

Maybe "Cerberus" or "Chimera" instead of Hydra?

Greek mythology has many nice names indeed. Hydra is nice in a way that it has many heads as many targets. The Hydra language you've linked to is not related to that one here plus it looks actually dead.

The thing is that almost every name is used for something, even languages. Ok, are there more suggestions? 

Yes actually:

xga/libxga/xgalang

xgalang.com
libxga.com

Thanks!

libxga might lead to confusion with libgdx.

I know the poll is running already but thanks for new suggestions. The interest is marginal anyway. Mike told me that Hydra is already kind of a cross platform thing: https://hydra.agoragames.com/

So it might be not the best choice anymore even though it's one of my favorites. I seem to be on Mark's ignore list, he simply doesn't answer my mails anymore so I don't know if he's fine with Blitz or not. I mean we just could it name Blitz for instance and have a domain like BlitzDevKit.

So as Hydra is somehow already used and most of the voters seem to like Blitz (including me), I guess Blitz-X could be a good candidate. X stands for cross platform. GL seems to be confusing because of OpenGL.

Quote from: Xaron on June 18, 2017, 07:03:27
Hydra is nice in a way that it has many heads as many targets.

That's why I suggested "Cerberus" and "Chimera" as alternatives...