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Why is abbreviation such a long word?

by Andrey Ognevsky —

I just launched em — a shortcut for ‘eventmachine’.

6 times less letters, 6 times more happyness.

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What is the value of this? Verbose names help developers know a little bit of what a gem actually does and this doesn’t even alias eventmachine so you have to type the same length references in code.

Eric —

Yay, let’s flood Rubygems.org with useless gems.

bcardarella —

lolruby

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