> The big reveal on why it’s called “Pony”? Back in the flight sim days, when I would make my friends groan by telling them yet again about all the things I was going to do when I wrote a programming language, one of the people I would tell was Nathan Mehl. And one time, when I gave him yet another laundry list, he said: “yeah, and I want a pony”.
But perhaps they didn't want to admit "pony" is also a reference to the slang term..
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...
When I read your opening 'I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else...' I thought you were going to go on to make a point about not using everyday words [or single letters] as the name for your new programming language, as they'll be unsearchable. And everyone will end up tagging -lang' onto the end of the name, to discriminate.
EDIT: I was a fiver out. A 'pony' is apparently £25: