On: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

[asteli]

I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're mostly moving over to Pangolin with Clamp on the backend." (substituting Pangolin and Clamp for any other nouns)

I don't think he ever caught on.

[mcv → asteli]

Note to self: check out Pangolin and Clamp.

I've got to say, they sound totally believable. I'm not entirely convinced you're making a joke here.

[asteli → mcv]

Joke is on me. I picked those nouns at random but Pangolin is a bona-fide frontend framework[1] and Clamp is a text truncating utility.[2]

1: https://pangolinjs.org/ 2: https://github.com/josephschmitt/Clamp.js/

[mcv → asteli]

It does emphasize the point that we're running out of nouns.

[asteli → mcv]

I work in electronics and laser stuff, where we use german-style compound names like "multi-pixel photon counting" and "erbium-doped fiber amplifier." Even in low-level compute, packages are named descriptively e.g. FreeRTOS. Lots of acronyms, but very few cute single-word nouns to name things. I've only observed that trend in relatively high-level software.

[rglover → asteli]

Hilarious. Stealing this idea, thank you.