libchrurl

It's visually more distinct than libcrurl while retaining an appropriate resemblance to libcurl.

One could argue that some resemblance in name is a good thing for curl. But libcrurl is too close and likely to cause confusion.

I really don't see what all the drama was over. Those aliases are incredibly valuable to me. I can never remember the PS equivalents of unix-y commands and those aliases let me use my current muscle memory.

Sure the options are different but it's really not all that different than switching between GNU/Linux, MacOS, and BSD and having to deal with differences.

    PS> cd C:\Users\
    PS> ls
    PS> wget https://example.com

And it makes discovery super easy when you can Get-Help just about every unix command and it will show you more-or-less the appropriate equivalent. The thread just looks like a bunch of people with a bone to pick against MS trying to take some moral high-ground with a change that was added to genuinely help users.

Windows 10 builds have included a 'real' curl for about a year now (build 1803 onwards IIRC)[1]

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/01/13/microsoft-curls-too/

If you launched an alternative search engine called Gooogle, I don't think Google would consider it a friendly move :)

Prefixing a word with another letter is perceptually different from slipping one in the middle, especially when the new letter is one of the four letters already in the name. What Google has done here would be more comparable to releasing a new utility called 'mkake'.

As the author of curl points out, it just looks like a typo. When it's this egregious, your only choices are to assume either incompetence or bad faith.

If not for Google's recent spate of scraping people's stuff and publishing it verbatim with zero attribution, they'd get the benefit of the doubt regarding maliciousness. See genius.com's recent accusations

The smell like some "developer's developer" who thinks he can do a better job of libcurl and is so cocksure that he's going with the name libcrurl. Perhaps he'll put his name on it. Unlikely, as that would require skin in the game.

crurl and libcrurl look almost visually identical to curl and libcurl - to the point that many on HN genuinely misread Google's names to be their original counterparts.

Whereas your make examples are much easier to visually differentiate.

If curl was trademarked then they would have a strong case here.

At least those all have the decency to be prefixes. Those are much easier to parse.

Then Google should follow that pattern and call it glibcurl

Which clearly reads as "the g(oogle) implementation of libcurl"

Chrome and curl seem like competing products. But I agree. I don't see this as that bad relative to the other things they're doing at the moment (i.e. breaking uBlock, user agent blocking).

In any case I admire curl has a binary size of ~1MB, which is 1/5 the size of my filter list for Chrome.

In your examples the first letter is different, the names do not suffer of the confusion issue, me and other people read the name wrong(our eyes or brain tricked us)

Neither of those make derivatives has a likelihood of being readably confused with the original similar to the libcurl/libcrurl comparison.

Slightly different in that case that they're introducing a new different letter at the start. What if I called my tool mmake, or mkake?

Marketing is busy branding the next 5 years worth of annual messaging applications.