Rename Moon

[kbrsh]

I've been thinking about doing this for quite a while now, but kept on pushing it farther and farther away. As much as I'd like to avoid it, Moon might have to be renamed. It'll give me more freedom to expand the community. Renaming Moon also has a number of advantages:

• Smaller domain
• Better SEO and visibility
• Shorter NPM package name
• Unique file extension (.moon is used by MoonScript)
• Official Twitter account

Upgrading should be fairly simple.

• All development will continue on a renamed version
• moonjs will be kept on NPM for all versions up to v0.11.0
• All new versions (including alphas, betas, and RC's) will be put on the renamed version
• The current documentation will redirect to the new one
• This repo will redirect to the new project, which will have a note about this rename
• All existing projects using Moon do not need to take action, but it is recommended

I haven't decided on the name yet, but it should preferably have something to do with a UI library, be about four letters. I'm also open to any suggestions and will not rename it if someone can convince me not to.

[LeviSchuck]

I've been wondering about that, but it is probably a good decision to make before a release quality v1

[htirma]

I agree with @LeviSchuck

[LeviSchuck]

random things that start with M

Maoi
Marq
Marz
Mati
Meeq
Meav
Meui
Meki
Meji
Megi

This is hard.

[0xs34n]

prevue 😛

[kbrsh]

@LeviSchuck How about:

• Mora
• Mova
• Mino

@seanseany I don't think that'll be a good name, because the v1 API is becoming more and more different than both Preact and Vue.

[LeviSchuck]

Mino already exists on npmjs

Mora has an associated user

I do like Mova

[Margaret2]

I like the name Moon, but I can understand you wanting to change it, so here's some more ideas:
Mint
Mist
Miso
Moka
Matcha
Mira
Mesa
Maui

[itsjef]

I'd suggest the name Mirai - which means the future in Japanese. Also, the "mi" in mirai means to view or vision, which might be suitable.

Besides, another name is Mochi - a type of small, usually round-shaped moon-like (see the pun?) Japanese sweet, although mochijs has already been taken but its latest commit was back to 2015 so I think that wouldn't be a problem.

[LeviSchuck]

Mochi may be a bad choice as a project already exists under this name for a web technology, albeit backend, https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb

[LeviSchuck]

Miso is also a bad choice, as a Haskell to JS project exists under that name, https://github.com/haskell-miso/miso

Mesa is also a bad choice as an open GL implementation is under that name for a long time. For a developer it won't be helpful to search that name.

[eucariop]

Blazify

[LeviSchuck]

If only there wasn't something "Blaze"-y that involved HTML 😛

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/blaze-html

[eucariop]

Ok, what does BlazifyJS say? seems like something new?

[itsjef]

We shouldn't be worried about non-js existing technology/framework (MochiWeb, BlazeHTML) except already well-known ones (OpenGL Mesa) since we can always append -js at the end :P