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This is great but I wish developers would get away from naming software based on the language it's coded in, in general. It's purely a public relations thing but I think the practice creates an impression of valuing process over product, and conceptually ties a product to a particular language ecosystem as a sort of implicit presumption.

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Libraries I don't mind: how much time do you really want to spend naming the 394th serialization library?

But for products aimed at end-users? Absolutely don't name it after the language it's written in.

To play devil's advocate for a moment though: this is the software used to run the forum for the language Nim. If you've ever been to the Nim forums, this is a version you can run yourself. Maybe that makes the name a bit more reasonable?

I do agree that NimForum is a bit of a lame name for end-users. The initial NimForum implementation was very much intended to only be used for the Nim community, with this new version I wanted to make it possible for others to use it as well. I have thought about creating a new identity for this project, but I couldn't come up with a good name on the spot (or at least one that others liked), so for now I just decided to keep the old NimForum name.

Certainly if there is interest I will happily consider rebranding.

What about NimbleForum? Still keeps the Nim reference, while also giving the impression of a fast and light forum.

Hehe, good idea, but that clashes with the name of our package manager: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble :)

How about Jack, because he's nimble and quick and jumped over the candlestick?

Since it's a forum using jester; troupe ? Ensemble ?

How about DeNim — since it came from Nim.

NimTalk?

NimSquawk?

from the very obvious to the whimsical:

NimmoPhon

Nimference

Nimbeaumôt [sic]

Nimditer

Echonim

Edit:

how I missed Nimsical, I don't know..

Nimminent

I am pushing it rather, so I'll quit while I'm behind... Sorry, but I have to try suggesting PhonoNim, after [0] thinking of phone typos in text conversations.

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=phononym

Occasionally things change enough that a rebranding is in order.

Kodi was previously XBMC which stood for "X-Box Media Center" long after the X-Box was no longer their focus of development (and perhaps even completely unsupported).

Your criticism applies equally to phpBB, and is valid. I suspect if NimForum becomes popular, the Nim part of the name will go away.

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