Naive question about file extension #78
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I have been thinking about it since day 1; how come you didn't use |
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Most file extensions with 3 letters are used already by other applications, so this was avoided to not have conflicts with other softwares. And to be clear in case someone that has never seen the Nelua name was also chosen in a special way, I've verified that nothing named Nelua could be found on google and on social networks, this way I can keep track of where Nelua is being used worldwide and its growth. By having the file extension to be also Nelua makes this easier to keep track where Nelua sources is being used. I personally dislike ungoogleable programming language names like C, Go, Ruby (and sadly Lua), the amount of unrelated results you find when searching about it makes a developer's life harder, as you have to filter many unrelated results in your search and in the end waste more time. |
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Yeah, it makes sense from that particular perspective; |
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Most file extensions with 3 letters are used already by other applications, so this was avoided to not have conflicts with other softwares. And to be clear in case someone that has never seen the
.neluaextension could google it with ease and find out what the file is.Nelua name was also chosen in a special way, I've verified that nothing named Nelua could be found on google and on social networks, this way I can keep track of where Nelua is being used worldwide and its growth. By having the file extension to be also Nelua makes this easier to keep track where Nelua sources is being used.
I personally dislike ungoogleable programming language names like C, Go, Ruby (and sadly Lua), the a…