Choose a better name than "DDL" about fathom

[wangp]

yesdata2

[mikeday]

not every project that manipulates data can be called yesdata, as tempting as that may be

[mikeday]

I wonder if we should keep it vanilla? Choosing a good name really is a rocky road, and it's so easy to end up with a lemon.

[mikeday]

Time for an afternoon snack, clearly.

[brendanzab]

• binit
• binned
• trashfire

[brendanzab]

kwak on the r/ProgrammingLanguages Discord suggests "Lambit":

i liked the idea behind that one:

Lamdat (lambdas and data)

though "lambit" sounds better to me
with a cute lamb as a logo

[mikeday]

twaddle

[mikeday]

muddle is also good

[mikeday]

addled, befuddle, skedaddle

[mikeday]

{cuddle}

[wangp]

I suggest yesdata.

[mikeday]

yet another data

[brendanzab]

Wonder if we could make some play on "slice". Potential for lots of room for puns to with taking a 'bite' out of a 'slice'. At the risk of making a YAFRN (Yet another food related name 🤣)

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/collections/slices

[brendanzab]

what have I done…

[brendanzab]

Some suggestions from the interwebs:

@PaulBone:

Given that it's rather niche (/u/bjzaba and I talk about it IRL) a name that says what it is/does/is for would be best IMHO - and that's a tough one.

It's like a map for difficult to parse file formats. a binary cartographer. or the tools for drawing such a map...

@evincarofautumn:

Just brainstorming by mashing related words together:

• Bindle (binary data-description language)
• Pinary (pi types and binary)>
• Dependat (dependent types and data)
• Morf (“shape” of data, morphisms)
• Pit/Pyte (pi types and bits/bytes)
• Parit/Pirit (parity bits, pi types, pirates?)
• Depit (dependent types and bits)
• Lamdat (lambdas and data)

[brendanzab]

• bitstruct
• bitmatch
• bytewalk
• bitspec
• binspec
• bytespec
• munch

[brendanzab]

• chompy
• crumbs
• morsel

[brendanzab]

• bintype

[brendanzab]

• superstructure
• superstruct
• riddle
• fiddle
• cuddle
• swaddle
• BDN (Binary Data Notation)
• BDEN (Binary Data Encoding Notation)
• BDEL (Binary Data Encoding Language)

[brendanzab]

• bitty/bitsy, itty-bitty/itsy-bitsy
• semblance, guise, veneer
• destruct: dependent binary data structure description language
• semblage: semantic assemblages of bit data

[adrianwong]

• deadlift - something something about doing the heavy lifting for you.
• deadlifted - suggested name change once deadlift is feature-complete.
• druidical - much mystical.
• doodle - because, well, you like to draw.
• cuddliest - variant of Michael's suggestion, but conveying with some passive-aggressive intent that no other DDL will be as cuddly.

[brendanzab]

Another idea:

• Fathom - understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought

[wezm]

It's a different domain, but be aware of https://usefathom.com/ (was open-source analytics but then went closed-source in v2).

[brendanzab]

Ahh interesting - seems like there is also mozilla/fathom - different domain too, but I think it has a little DSL attached?

[brendanzab]

TBH I think I'm rather leaning towards fathom - kind of what you must do when faced with a complicated binary format. Also mirrors the process of making the language itself! 😅