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		chrisweekly on Aug 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure Yes, naming things is hard, but, "jank"? Yikes. "Jank" describes undesirable, problematic, glitchy UX. I genuinely thought that the title was denigrating Clojure on LLVM. Maybe it's intended to be funny or ironic, and if it catches on it won't matter, but it sure seems like a footgun.

Jeaye on Aug 17, 2022 | [–]

It is self-deprecating, yeah. But hopefully it's memorable!

chrisweekly on Aug 17, 2022 | [–]

... which is a shame, bc the linked landing page does a great job of explaining what jank-lang is, and it looks really cool.

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