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Somewhat meta, but why would Microsoft I use the Kit suffix which has been widely used by Apple adopted from NeXT?

That'd be my fault, me and my co-workers were working with a lot of tools that had the "Kit" suffix when we started on it :O Apple's definitely not the only one who does it!

>Somewhat meta, but why would Microsoft I use the Kit suffix which has been widely used by Apple adopted from NeXT?

The *Kit libraries from Apple are always capitalized. UIKit, SceneKit, WebKit, etc. The generic use of *kit for other libraries is pretty common though.

Because the term is not allocated specifically to Apple.

Sure, but it has a 30 year lineage in their active product line. It would be like prefixing a library with Direct in the early 00s. It seems ignorant and derivative.

For the same reason they registered the domain typescriptlang.org instead of typescript.org: riding on the hype train created by others.

Besides, the project looks really interesting, I'll have a look into it.

What is the hype train you associate with typescriptlang.org? "Lang"?

I associate it with "golang", the search-optimized way to refer to the language Go, from the world's largest search company.

Sure. But would you refer to that as the "hype train"?

Before golang there was rubylang, clang, racketlang, dlang, slang, etc. Seems like a pretty common convention for language websites not limited to a single organization. Be used “Kit”, but I’m not familiar with anyone else that did (and NeXT used it long before they did).

I think they probably used typescriptlang.org because typescript.org was registered in 2006 for a CMS called Typescript.

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