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People are the worst at naming products. Why call it Mint when there is already an insanely popular Mint.com financial software. It makes Googling/searching for product relevancy near impossible. It's like try to search for Firefox on Android vs Firefox on a desktop information.

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No it doesn't. All you have to do is search <language> <package> and you get relevant results. Look through your library list, it's pretty common for the names to only make sense in context.

actually, if you need it fast, you can just duckduckgo "mint !hexpm"

That’s handy!

Yes sorry I should have also mentioned that it only really saves time if you have ddg as your default searchbar engine!

It's in the context of Elixir, so search for "mint elixir" and I'm sure it'll be quite discoverable - or searching for "mint" on an Elixir contextualized site.

"mint elixir", unsurprisingly, mostly turns up beverages and mint-flavored medicinal things.

What search engine did you use?

On Google, the first two results for me on "mint elixir":

Mint, a new HTTP library for Elixir - Elixir https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/02/25/mint-a-new-http-libr... 42 mins ago - Mint is a new low-level HTTP library that aims to provide a small and functional core that others can build on top.

GitHub - ericmj/mint: Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for ... https://github.com/ericmj/mint Functional HTTP client for Elixir with support for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 - ericmj/mint.

For me on Google, "mint elixir" has the GitHub repo as the first result, then a bunch of links for "How to install Elixir on Linux Mint". DDG gives a software company called "Elixir Mint" as the first result, followed by links to drink recipes, and the GitHub repo is down near the bottom.

For me opening up Microsoft Edge which I never use for anything not testing related and hence Google does not know me on that browser and does not guess I want programming stuff Mint Elixir came up #5.

Not to mention Linux Mint.

At least it's definitely not TOS.

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