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Are we sure it should get a single-letter 'q' binary name though? Docs seem to point that it's short for 'query-json'? Why not call it 'query-json' and let the user decide that as a shell alias or whatever. Even the ubiquitous 'ls' and 'cd' are two characters.

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Also clashes with this existing q: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from...

Which is relatively established and widely used (although mainly in finance). It was the first thing I thought about.

And there's also this 'q':

http://harelba.github.io/q/

Query CSV with SQL

Seems in the past hour he has renamed it to query-json and suggests that you set your own alias if you want something shorter.

Yeah. Can you imagine trying to do a web search for ‘q’?

I can and it is lightly disturbing. https://imgur.com/a/yAOF31g ^_^

Gqd, look how that looks like 666, edit distance is 3. Turn around the letters. Here have a timeline: https://imgur.com/a/aQYnKLm

"Gqd" = graphene quantum dot ?

I think it is a pun on God ^_^

I was hoping for some star trek shenanigans... I am disappointed.

Appropriating Shepard Fairey's graphical style into a QAnon T-shirt and then wearing it to a Trump rally is an arresting masterwork of postmodernism. One wonders: is the wearer trolling the rally, or is he trolling himself? Perhaps we are all trolls. Perhaps we have all been trolled. HAND.

or at least qj

I don't want to fight for name, q was a shortener.

Happy to rename it to qj instead, but the option of renaming the binary it's a good workaround.

Given these are two of the least-used characters in English and basically never appear in this sequence, it would certainly help for all the reasons people are mentioning. It'd at least follow suit with like 'rg' for 'ripgrep'.

I made the same argument to him on reddit. q even exists already.

He replied and thought about qj

Renamed :P

Thanks! qj is fine

Renamed already :D

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