The name has unfortunate verbal similarities with a well known sex toy, especially when different accents are considered. I am actually astounded they went ahead with this name.
Sample size of 1, but this North American immediately thought "oh no, how unfortunate" on seeing the headline. (Admittedly, I do listen to more podcasts than the average person.)
that said, interesting decision to ditch the scripting language. when i think of these sorts of things, immediately think that embedding or supporting a scripting language makes a ton of sense. i'm curious what the thinking was to just go full c++? i suppose they just decided that modern c++ was easy enough and this was better for simplifying production?
(Although not, let's be honest, without amusement.)
I assume they are going for "batteries included" connections?
Is this some sort of performance art comment?
Perhaps because I can't see very well I had uncertainty when reading the article title. But unless you're quite innocent (i.e. not a user of the internet) I don't see how you could avoid knowing about such devices. Knowing many programmers, I also know that they span the full spectrum from Bible-studies to BDSM (though that might be a horseshoe), and many are prone to juvenile humour which can become sexually toned. So I know that someone will use it in this context. When you become a manager you choose to avoid creating such problems. Some of you probably see this tone policing -- you are correct, suck it up.
For those who don't understand what Hamming distance is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance